A Rare Cause of Vaginal Discharge in a Pre-Pubertal Girl

Koushik Herle, Harshjeet Singh Bal

Abstract


Vaginal discharge is not an uncommon gynaecological problem and is most commonly infective in origin. Foreign bodies in vagina are the most common non-infective cause of vaginal discharge. We report a case of 5-year-old girl with button battery in vagina causing walled off collection along with vaginal discharge. Child needed a laparotomy due to the dense synechiae caused by the battery leak.


Keywords


Button battery; Vaginal foreign body; Vaginal discharge

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21699/ajcr.v8i4.605

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