TY - JOUR T1 - Serial <em>x</em> rays in battery ingestion JF - Emergency Medicine Journal JO - Emerg Med J SP - 561 LP - 561 DO - 10.1136/emj.2005.027516 VL - 22 IS - 8 AU - Stewart Teece AU - Kevin Mackway-Jones Y1 - 2005/08/01 UR - http://emj.bmj.com/content/22/8/561.abstract N2 - A short cut review was carried out to establish whether serial x rays were necessary in cases of battery ingestion where the battery has passed through the oesophagus. A total of 104 papers were found using the reported search, of which none presented any evidence to answer the clinical question. It is concluded that there is no evidence available to answer this question. Further research is needed. ER -