Foreign body impaction of the hard palate: tabletop party confetti mimicking button batteries in two infants.
Diagnostic errors
Electrical equipment and supplies
Emergency service
Foreign bodies
Hard
Hospital
Palate
Journal
European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
ISSN: 1434-4726
Titre abrégé: Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 9002937
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Jun 2023
Jun 2023
Historique:
received:
24
02
2023
accepted:
17
03
2023
medline:
15
5
2023
pubmed:
31
3
2023
entrez:
30
3
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
We present the first two cases in the literature of tabletop party confetti mimicking button batteries in two infants. Both patients presented to the Emergency Department with an incidentally noticed shiny, metallic appearing, disc-shaped foreign body impacted in the hard palate. Both objects were understandably misdiagnosed as button batteries. The first patient required foreign body retrieval by ENT under general anaesthesia, whilst the second underwent retrieval safely in the Emergency Department. Tabletop party confetti should be considered in patients presenting with a suspected button battery impaction of the hard palate, which will drastically change the approach to clinical management and potentially minimise harms.
Identifiants
pubmed: 36997803
doi: 10.1007/s00405-023-07935-9
pii: 10.1007/s00405-023-07935-9
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
3023-3026Informations de copyright
© 2023. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.
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