@Al Sacchetti--do you know if the button battery is dense enough to alert the metal detector?? CXR can sort of tell if there's a lucency and if the swallowed object is a coin vs button battery.
Of note, a 3rd technique not discussed in the management options of swallowed foreign bodies is the esophageal bougienage for coins. Ashley Strobel MD Hennepin County Medical Center ED University of Masonic Children's Hospital PED
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Ashley S. - April 7, 2017 3:14 PM
@Al Sacchetti--do you know if the button battery is dense enough to alert the metal detector?? CXR can sort of tell if there's a lucency and if the swallowed object is a coin vs button battery.
Of note, a 3rd technique not discussed in the management options of swallowed foreign bodies is the esophageal bougienage for coins.
Ashley Strobel MD
Hennepin County Medical Center ED
University of Masonic Children's Hospital PED