diff --git a/Parsedown.php b/Parsedown.php
index 2a02376..adcd84e 100755
--- a/Parsedown.php
+++ b/Parsedown.php
@@ -905,11 +905,12 @@ class Parsedown
             $row = trim($row);
             $row = trim($row, '|');
 
-            $cells = explode('|', $row);
+            preg_match_all('/(?:(\\\\[|])|[^|`]|`[^`]+`|`)+/', $row, $matches);
 
-            foreach ($cells as $index => $cell)
+            foreach ($matches[0] as $index => $cell)
             {
                 $cell = trim($cell);
+                $cell = str_replace('\|', '|', $cell);
 
                 $Element = array(
                     'name' => 'td',
diff --git a/test/data/table_inline_markdown.html b/test/data/table_inline_markdown.html
index 53d0eb8..4fa2e2b 100644
--- a/test/data/table_inline_markdown.html
+++ b/test/data/table_inline_markdown.html
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@
 <td><del>cell</del> 1.2</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
-<td><code>cell</code> 2.1</td>
-<td>cell 2.2</td>
+<td><code>|</code> 2.1</td>
+<td>| 2.2</td>
 </tr>
 </tbody>
 </table>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/test/data/table_inline_markdown.md b/test/data/table_inline_markdown.md
index c2fe108..ef04ce1 100644
--- a/test/data/table_inline_markdown.md
+++ b/test/data/table_inline_markdown.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 | _header_ 1   | header 2     |
 | ------------ | ------------ |
 | _cell_ 1.1   | ~~cell~~ 1.2 |
-| `cell` 2.1   | cell 2.2     |
\ No newline at end of file
+| `|` 2.1      | \| 2.2       |
\ No newline at end of file