Fire eater's risk: Lipoid pneumonia following aspiration of a liquid hydrocarbon mixture

Pneumologie

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 547-549

  Junge, B ^a,b   Popp, W ^b   Ruehm, S ^b   Rettenmeier, A W ^b   Duhrsen U ^b   Runzi M ^a,b  

^a Eye Hospital   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANALGESIC AGENT; BETA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; BUDESONIDE; CORTICOSTEROID; DIPYRONE; HYDROCARBON;

ACCIDENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BIOPHYSICS; CASE REPORT; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; FIRE; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; FIRES; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PNEUMONIA, LIPID; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036733533     PISSN: 09348387     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2002-33852     Document Type: Article

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