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Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Allergic enterocolitis and protein-losing enteropathy as the presentations of manganese leak from an ingested disk battery: A case report | Journal of Medical Case Reports BioMed Central Open Access Case report Allergic enterocolitis and protein-losing enteropathy as the presentations of manganese leak from an ingested disk battery A case report Muhammad A Altaf Praveen S Goday and Grzegorz Telega Address Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition Department of Pediatrics The Medical College of Wisconsin Watertown Plank Road Milwaukee WI 53221 USA Email Muhammad A Altaf - maltaf@ Praveen S Goday-pgoday@ Grzegorz Telega - gtelega@ Corresponding author Published 27 August 2008 Received 13 December 2007 Journal of Medical Case Reports 2008 2 286 doi 1752-1947-2-286 Accepted 27 August 2008 This article is available from http content 2 1 286 2008 Altaf et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction Disk battery ingestions can lead to serious complications including airway or digestive tract perforation blood vessel erosions mediastinitis and stricture formation. Case presentation We report a 20-month-old Caucasian child who developed eosinophilic enterocolitis and subsequent protein-losing enteropathy from manganese that leaked from a lithium disk battery. The disk battery was impacted in her esophagus for 10 days resulting in battery corrosion. We postulate that this patient s symptoms were due to a manganese leak from the retained disk battery this resulted in an allergic response in her gut and protein-losing enteropathy. Her symptoms improved gradually over the next 2 weeks with conservative management. Conclusion This is the first case report to highlight the potential complication