Hydrocarbon pneumonitis following liquid paraffin aspiration during a fire-eating performance: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Hydrocarbon pneumonitis is an acute, intense pneumonitis resulting from aspiration of volatile hydrocarbon compounds with low viscosity and surface tension, most of which are members of the paraffin, naphthene and aromatic classes. CASE PRESENTATION: Six hours after participating in a...

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Autores principales: Mylonaki, Efrosyni, Voutsas, Vasileios, Antoniou, Dimitrios, Papakosta, Despina, Kontakiotis, Theodoros, Skordalaki, Anna, Vafiadis, Evagelos, Christaki, Pandora
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2459199/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18565234
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-2-214

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2459199/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18565234
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-2-214

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