Bilateral hemorrhagic pleural effusion due to kerosene aspiration

• Main Authors: Rajendra Prasad, Saurabh Karmakar, Rakhee Sodhi, Shilpi Karmakar
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2011-01-01
• Series: Lung India
• Subjects: Hydrocarbon; kerosene aspiration; pleural effusion
• Online Access: http://www.lungindia.com/article.asp?issn=0970-2113;year=2011;volume=28;issue=2;spage=130;epage=132;aulast=Prasad
• ISSN: 0970-2113; 0974-598X

Kerosene ingested, intentionally or accidentally, is toxic. Data is scarce on complications and outcomes of hydrocarbon poisoning following kerosene aspiration in adults and there has been no known case of bilateral hemorrhagic effusion occurring due to it in literature. We, hereby, report a case of a bilateral hemorrhagic pleural effusion secondary to hydrocarbon aspiration in a 40-year old adult.