Stiff Neck and Drooling in a Young Girl.
Autor: Prince, William B.; Cantor, Richard M.
Publication year: 2020
Pediatric emergency care
issn:1535-1815 0749-5161
doi: 10.1097/PEC.0000000000001446
Abstract:
A 3-year-old girl was brought to the emergency department 4 days after she was playing with a button battery and subsequently had a choking episode. The patient was seen immediately at a different emergency department and was discharged home after a normal chest x-ray finding and able to tolerate an oral challenge with liquids. She was later evaluated by her primary care physician and started on amoxicillin for possible pharyngitis. On examination in our emergency department, the patient had pooling of secretions and was unwilling to range her neck due to pain. Soft tissue neck x-ray confirmed a 20-mm button battery in the esophagus with air lucencies in the prevertebral soft tissues.
Language: eng
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Pmid: 29489602
Tags: Humans; Female; Diagnosis, Differential; Child, Preschool; *Electric Power Supplies; Esophagus/*diagnostic imaging/*injuries; Foreign Bodies/complications/*diagnostic imaging; Neck Pain/etiology; Sialorrhea/diagnosis/etiology
Link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29489602/
