Button Battery X-Rray (IMAGE)

Nationwide Children's Hospital

Button Battery X-Rray

Caption

The key to differentiating a button battery from a coin is to magnify or zoom into the image looking for a double ring or halo. This X-ray shows a small ridge on the object that this toddler has swallowed -- a button battery.

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Nationwide Children's Hospital

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