Impending esophago-arterial fistula after battery ingestion-First preventive operation on a toddler worldwide

Affiliations

• ¹ Clinic for Paediatric and Adolescent Surgery and Urology, Children's Hospital Cologne, Amsterdamer Straße, Cologne, Germany.
• ² Paediatric Radiology Department, Children's Hospital Cologne, Amsterdamer Straße, Cologne, Germany.
• ³ Clinic for Visceral, Tumour, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Medical Center Cologne-Merheim, Cologne, Germany.
• ⁴ Clinic for Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery, Medical Center Cologne-Merheim, Cologne, Germany.
• ⁵ Faculty for Health, University Witten/Herdecke, Witten, Germany.
• ⁶ Department of Paediatric Anaesthesiology and Endoscopy, Children's Hospital Cologne, Amsterdamer Straße 59, 50735, Cologne, Germany. [email protected].
• ⁷ Faculty for Health, University Witten/Herdecke, Witten, Germany. [email protected].