TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2011//
TI  - Two cases of aspiration of calcium tablets
JO  - Lung India: official organ of Indian Chest Society
A1  - Micallef, Josef
A1  - Montefort, Stephen
A1  - Mallia Azzopardi, Charles
A1  - Galea, Joseph
SP  - 312
EP  - 314
VL  - 28
IS  - 4
N2  - Two clinical cases of aspiration are reported in elderly ladies with differing presentations following inhalation of the same brand of calcium tablet. One of the patients distinctly recalled the choking episode, whereas the other failed to do so making the diagnosis of aspiration difficult. One of the aspirated tablets was successfully retrieved during rigid bronchoscopy after the patient reported several months of cough requiring multiple courses of antibiotics. The other aspirated tablet was coughed up by the patient after the successful treatment of a pneumonia complicated by a parapneumonic effusion.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0970-2113
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.85700
ID  - ref1
ER  -