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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Michael Lee Jr., Michael George, Kate E. Dorney
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eScholarship Publishing, University of California 2019-05-01
Series:Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine
Online Access:https://escholarship.org/uc/item/03s114gx