Foreign body ingestion in children is considered an emergency. The most common ingested foreign bodies are coins;however, the ingestion of disc batteries is on the rise requiring urgent rigid esophagoscopy. In the lit...Foreign body ingestion in children is considered an emergency. The most common ingested foreign bodies are coins;however, the ingestion of disc batteries is on the rise requiring urgent rigid esophagoscopy. In the literature, multiple foreign body ingestion is very rare and only a few cases of multiple coins and multiple battery ingestion have been reported in the past. Herein, a case of simultaneous coin and battery ingestion requiring foreign bodies removal on two sequential endoscopies due to improper initial evaluation in a pediatric patient is reported which, to our knowledge, is the first reported case.展开更多
文摘Foreign body ingestion in children is considered an emergency. The most common ingested foreign bodies are coins;however, the ingestion of disc batteries is on the rise requiring urgent rigid esophagoscopy. In the literature, multiple foreign body ingestion is very rare and only a few cases of multiple coins and multiple battery ingestion have been reported in the past. Herein, a case of simultaneous coin and battery ingestion requiring foreign bodies removal on two sequential endoscopies due to improper initial evaluation in a pediatric patient is reported which, to our knowledge, is the first reported case.
