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