Severe barium sulfate aspiration into the lung: Clinical presentation, prognosis and therapy

Respiration

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 81-84

  Tamm, Ingo ^a,b   Kortsik, Cornelius ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aspiration; Barium; Barium sulfate; X ray

Indexed keywords

BARIUM SULFATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; BODY POSITION; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; DYSPNEA; EXTRACTION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL RADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; LUNG; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG VENTILATION PERFUSION RATIO; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TRACHEOBRONCHIAL TREE;

AGED; ALCOHOLISM; BARIUM SULFATE; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODIES; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 0033022116     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000029344     Document Type: Article

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