Fire-eater's pneumonia after aspiration of liquid paraffin

Turkish Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 85-88

  Karacan, Özgür ^a   Yilmaz, Insu ^a   Eyüboǧlu, Füsun Öner ^a  

^a BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Aspiration; Fire eater's; Hydrocarbons; Paraffin; Pneumonia

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CORTICOSTEROID; HYDROCARBON; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LIQUID PARAFFIN; OMEPRAZOLE; PENICILLIN G; PREDNISOLONE; SULTAMICILLIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANAMNESIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; CASE REPORT; CHILL; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; COUGHING; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; EYELID EDEMA; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LUNG INFILTRATE; MALE; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PEPTIC ULCER; PNEUMATOCELE; RETROSTERNAL PAIN; SCAR FORMATION; TACHYCARDIA; TACHYPNEA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADOLESCENT; HUMANS; INHALATION; LUNG; MALE; PARAFFIN; PNEUMONIA; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33644806016     PISSN: 00414301     EISSN: 00414301     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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