Identifying a Disc-shaped Foreign Body
A four-year-old girl presented to the emergency department vomiting after a foreign body ingestion. An anteroposterior plain radiograph demonstrated a disc-shaped foreign body. Ordinarily, a plain radiograph cannot conclusively identify an object as a coin rather than a button battery that requires...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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eScholarship Publishing, University of California
2019-05-01
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Series: | Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine |
Online Access: | https://escholarship.org/uc/item/03s114gx |