Vascular Ring Complicates Accidental Button Battery Ingestion

Keywords

Button battery; CTA; Fatal outcome; Vascular ring; Vasculoesophageal fistula

Abstract

Button battery ingestion can lead to dangerous complications, including vasculoesophageal fistula formation. The presence of a vascular ring may complicate battery ingestion if the battery lodges at the level of the ring and its important vascular structures. We report a 4-year-old boy with trisomy 21 who was diagnosed with a vascular ring at the time of button battery ingestion and died 9 days after presentation due to massive upper gastrointestinal bleeding from esophageal erosion and vasculoesophageal fistula formation.

Publication Date

5-1-2015

Publication Title

Clinical Imaging

Volume

39

Issue

3

Number of Pages

510-512

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clinimag.2015.01.009

Socpus ID

84927969123 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84927969123

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