Fire Eater's Pneumonia: One of the Rare Differential Diagnoses of Pulmonary Mass Images.
Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: Accidental aspiration of liquid hydrocarbon mixture by animators who blow Àame may lead to severe lipoid pneumonia.1-3 This situation that occurs due to accidental aspiration of liquid hydrocarbon mixture (gas oil, gas oil-cognac mix) during animation shows is called “Fire Eater’s Pneumonia ” in the literature, which has been presented in few cases.1,2,4,5 Different consequences may occur through the high and low viscosity products.5,6 In cases reported in the literature, the main clinical symptoms are cough, dyspnea, chest pain and fever; the subjects are generally referred to the emergency room with severe dyspnea.7-10 Hereby, we introduce two cases of ¿re eater’s pneumonia. The ¿rst case was a 29-year-old male animator who aspirated liquid gas during his Àame-blowing show in
Source: Europe PMC (PubMed Central)
Institution: Yedikule Teaching Hospital
Language: English
Topic: Foreign Body Medical Cases
Subfield: Otorhinolaryngology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2016406968