Fire-eater's lung: Two case reports and review of the literature;Feuerspuckerlunge: Zwei kasuistiken und literaturübersicht

Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 131, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 319-322

  Lampert, Sabine ^a   Schmid, A ^c   Wiest, G ^a   Hahn, E G ^a   Ficker, J H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^b KLINIKUM NÜRNBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PETROLEUM; SALBUTAMOL;

ABNORMAL RESPIRATORY SOUND; ADULT; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIZZINESS; DYSPNEA; FEVER; FIRE EATER LUNG; FOLLOW UP; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG INFILTRATE; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; REVIEW; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ADULT; ALBUTEROL; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BRONCHODILATOR AGENTS; CHEST PAIN; DIZZINESS; DYSPNEA; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; PETROLEUM; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION;

EID: 33644590399     PISSN: 00120472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-932518     Document Type: Review

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