It was month of May in the year 2025.
There was this little 7-year-old girl residing in a multi-storey building of Greater Noida.
While playing, she swallowed the battery of an I-phone.
It had been three days since, when she narrated the incident to the parents.
The child was taken to the nearest super-specialty hospital, where X-ray chest and X-ray abdomen erect was advised by the emergency medical officer. For the amazement of the doctors, the metallic battery was seen in the upper abdomen in the chest X-ray. When the abdomen erect X-ray was taken, the battery was seen to lie somewhere in the middle part of the abdomen.
It was a confused scenario.
The family doctor advised to undergo ultrasound abdomen to correctly localize the metallic foreign body.
Thus, the child presented to ARDISS IMAGING & DIAGNOSTIC CENTRE, Sector Alpha-2, Greater Noida.
High resolution scan of the abdomen was conducted.
The battery was localized in the pylorus of the stomach, just proximal to the first part of the duodenum.
As the foreign body had not moved as expected in the alimentary canal; the parents were advised to undergo endoscopic removal to avoid any future complications.
The ultrasound in expert hands saved the day for the doctors.
The ultrasound image demonstrating the foreign body is as appended below.
