Management of foreign body ingestions in children: button batteries and magnets.

Foreign body ingestion and foreign body aspiration commonly affect young children between 6 months and 6 years. A large number of these events remain unwitnessed and asymptomatic while the swallowed foreign body traverses the gastrointestinal tract and is passed in the stool. Recent literature has s...

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Published in:British Journal of Nursing Vol. 26; no. 8; pp. 456 - 462
Main Authors: Kodituwakku, Ronan, Palmer, Sarah, Prosad Paul, Siba
Format: algorithm diagnostic images pictorial review tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Mark Allen Holdings Limited 4/27/2017
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