Surgical treatment of septal perforation due to button battery with allograft dermal matrix

Haşmet Yazıcı; Erhan Arslan; Sedat Doğan; Cem Bayraktar

doi:10.5606/kbbu.2015.66588

Haşmet Yazıcı¹, Erhan Arslan², Sedat Doğan³, Cem Bayraktar³

¹Balıkesir Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Kulak Burun Boğaz Anabilim Dalı, Balıkesir, Türkiye
²Kazan Devlet Hastanesi, Kulak Burun Boğaz Kliniği, Ankara, Türkiye
³Adıyaman Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Kulak Burun Boğaz Anabilim Dalı, Adıyaman, Türkiye

Keywords: Allograft dermal matrix, button battery, septal perforation.

Abstract

A four-year-old girl was admitted to our clinic with complaint of left sided foul smelling nasal discharge. In the examination, a button battery and 1x1 cm septal perforation were detected in left nasal cavity. In this article, we report our experience of successful intranasal endoscopic repair of nasal septal perforation by using interpositional human dermal allograft (SureDerm) with the review of literature.