Mercury absorption following button battery ingestion
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1Trauma Unit, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Journal of Pediatric Surgery
|December 1, 1992
Abstract:
A case of button battery ingestion with resulting disintegration of the battery, mercury spillage, and absorption of elemental mercury from the colon is reported. In the light of this case and other recorded complications following button battery ingestion, a plan of management is suggested.