A 2-year-old presents with a 10-day history of food refusal and vomiting, now with blood-stained vomitus. Chest X-ray reveals a button battery lodged in the distal oesophagus.
A 2-year-old presents with a 10-day history of food refusal and vomiting, now with blood-stained vomitus. Chest X-ray reveals a button battery lodged in the distal oesophagus.
Small magnets in small people.
A 14-month-old boy presented to the Emergency Department following a choking episode the previous day at kindergarten. He had been eating a piece of diced apple at the time.
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Children (mainly), and even some adults, like to put a range of objects in any orifice they can find. Once they’re in, they come to us in the ED to sort out whether they’re really there, and how best to extract them.
FB inhalation is a common cause of mortality and morbidity in children. It is often not witnessed so must be considered in children with unexplained acute respiratory symptoms.
A 65-year-old gentleman attends with a 4 week history of increasing pain on swallowing – although he is still managing to eat and drink.