Case Report on Abdominal Injury Due To Mobile Battery Blast
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Dental and Medical Sciences (IOSR-JDMS) - Year 2018, Vol 17, Issue 4
Abstract
In the era of good technology which is not lacking from our lives,weencounter with equipment/devices in our routine life, speciallyautomobile batteries, laptops,smartwatches and mobile phone batteries, which transform chemical energy to electrical injury. Today, mobile phone has become popular to everybody since it is convenient. As the use of mobile phone is increasing dramatically all over the world, accidents of burns and even fatal injuries caused by mobile phone explosion have been reported on the internet and in the scientific literature. About 40 cases of exploding batteries on Nokia phone have been reported- all were due to nonoriginal batteries being used[1].In the literature, there are mainly facial burns, neck and eye injuries due to mobile phone battery explosion. On the other hand, few examples of serious lower limb injury were also present.
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Ashwini Kumar Dalal, Bharat Kumar Sunaina
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