Jaybhaye Prasad L, Shilawant Santosh S
Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church Medical College, Kolenchery, Cochin, Kerala, India.
Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Shree Nijalinggapa Medical College, Bagalkot, Karnataka, India.
Toxicol Int. 2014 Sep-Dec;21(3):316-8. doi: 10.4103/0971-6580.155381.
Accidental aspiration of diesel can cause consolidation, atelectasis, and abscess formation. Aspiration of diesel usually results into pneumonitis, which resolves completely within 5-7 days of treatment. Diesel aspiration resulting in bilateral pneumonia and death is rare and is scarcely documented in literature. Finding of lipoid cells in lung autopsy specimen is one of the important features of hydrocarbon aspiration. Unfortunately this important finding is not mentioned in most of the toxicology textbooks. Hence, we are reporting this case.