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To the Editor.— We appreciated the article by Kavanagh and Litovitz1entitled Miniature Battery Foreign Bodies in Auditory and Nasal Cavities. We would like to add the use of a magnet to the list of possible battery retrieval methods. Use of a magnet to remove batteries from the stomach has been described,2but, to our knowledge, a magnet has not been used for removal of batteries from other orifices. A magnetized screwdriver worked very well in the following case. Report of a Case.— A 9-year-old girl awoke with acute otalgia in the left ear immediately after her 5-year-old play-mate inserted a miniature toy watch battery in her ear canal. Her intense pain continued and she was examined in our clinic about 90 minutes after the incident. The battery was lodged mid-way in the canal and efforts to retrieve the battery with alligator forceps were unsuccessful and painful. After
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