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When button batteries become breakfast: the hidden dangers of button battery ingestion

Mollie K McConnell1

  • 1Division of Paediatric Emergency Medicine and Division of Paediatric Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Journal of Pediatric Nursing
|February 5, 2013
PubMed

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Button batteryForeign bodyHome safetyIngestionInjury prevention

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