The pediatric button battery (BB) hazard has been recognized for several decades. In 2012, the National Button Battery Task Force was established, and most manufacturers have improved warning labels, more secure packaging, and made BB compartments in…
Objectives: Pediatric esophageal button battery (BB) injury occurs rapidly and continues to be a significant source of morbidity and mortality. Unfortunately, a BB that no longer supplies power to a device can still have enough residual voltage to…
Relative to the overall number of foreign body cases that present to hospitals each year, the urinary bladder is an uncommon location (1,2). However, it is the most common site of foreign bodies in the urogenital tract, due to its distendable nature…
