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Intralobar pulmonary sequestration: an uncommon case with triple arterial supply and systemic venous drainage
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Intralobar pulmonary sequestration: an uncommon case with triple arterial supply and systemic venous drainage

Ioannis Theodoropoulos and Marshall Z Schwartz
Pediatric surgery international, v 28(7), pp 741-744
Jul 2012
PMID: 22526550

Abstract

Aorta, Thoracic - diagnostic imaging Bronchopulmonary Sequestration - diagnosis Bronchopulmonary Sequestration - surgery Follow-Up Studies Humans Imaging, Three-Dimensional - methods Infant Lung - blood supply Lung - diagnostic imaging Lung - surgery Male Tomography, X-Ray Computed - methods Vena Cava, Inferior - diagnostic imaging
Pulmonary sequestration is a rare congenital pulmonary malformation. We report a case of a 10-month-old infant with intralobar pulmonary sequestration diagnosed in utero. The lesion had an uncommon blood supply consisting of three large arteries deriving from the thoracic aorta and venous drainage into the inferior vena cava.

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