Fire Eater’s Pneumonia: One of the Rare DifferentialDiagnosesofPulmonaryMassImages

Accidental aspiration of liquid hydrocarbon mixture by animators who blow flamemayleadtoseverelipoid 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 fireeater'spneumonia.