Abstract:Background; Barium aspiration is one of rare major complication of esophagography. 40% cases of aspiration pneumonia occur without clinical symptoms and the other 30% results in deaths. Case. A 62-years-old female choked some barium liquid when performing esophagography procedure. We found ronchi on lower left haemithorax and granuler hiperdensity pattern on left paracardial from chest x-ray photo. Eight days later, patient suffered the clinical symptoms of infection and from chest x-ray photo we found infiltr… Show more
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