An unsuspected alkaline battery foreign body presenting as malignant otitis externa
- 1 June 1992
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Pediatric Emergency Care
- Vol. 8 (3) , 141-142
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00006565-199206000-00007
Abstract
We describe a case of an unsuspected button battery foreign body in the ear canal causing symptoms that mimic malignant otitis externa in a previously healthy 13 year old. Button batteries in the ear canal may cause extensive liquefactive necrosis of the surrounding tissue by leaking an alkaline electrolyte solution. Suspicion of a foreign body should be maintained in any child presenting with a complicated otitis externa. Prompt evaluation and removal of button batteries are necessary to prevent tissue destruction.Keywords
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