Foreign body ingestion - overlapping coins mimicking button battery

Case contributed by Ayman A A Elhosny , 30 Oct 2023
Diagnosis certain
Changed by Ayman A A Elhosny, 23 Mar 2024
Disclosures - updated 29 Oct 2023: Nothing to disclose

Updates to Study Attributes

Findings was changed:

Anteroposterior (AP) view: a radiopaque disc

Lateral View (Lat): Step-off sign

Annotation 'Step-off Sign' (on Image 3 (X-ray (Lateral view - Magnifying of the foreign body))) is not linked from the findings

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