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Review
. 2020 Nov 4:12:341-352.
doi: 10.2147/OAEM.S241190. eCollection 2020.

Foreign Body and Caustic Substance Ingestion in Childhood

Mustafa Erman Dorterler  1 , Tansel Günendi  1
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Foreign Body and Caustic Substance Ingestion in Childhood

Mustafa Erman Dorterler et al. Open Access Emerg Med. .

Abstract

Foreign body and caustic substance ingestion in childhood are common and require accurate and timely diagnosis to provide appropriate management consistent with the ingested substance/foreign body and clinical presentation as well as the associated risk status to prevent significant complications and morbidity. The aim of this paper was to present foreign body and caustic ingestion in childhood in terms of epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnostic work-up and appropriate management and potential complications in accordance with clinical presentation and the type of ingested substance/foreign body.

Keywords: caustic ingestion; childhood; diagnosis; foreign body ingestion; treatment.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors report no conflicts of interest.

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
Foreign body in the oesophagus (battery). Notes: Reproduced with permission from Dörterler.7530
Figure 2
Figure 2
Corrosive oesophagitis: (A) radiological image (B) endoscopic image.
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