How many lobes do you see?
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Accessory fissures represent a variation of the normal lung anatomy. Incomplete development or even the absence of the major or minor fissures can lead to confusion in distinguishing adjacent lobes. This report aims to present a rare intraoperative finding of an...
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| author | Tsantsaridou Angeliki Daskalopoulos Marios E Hevas Athanasios Roubelakis Apostolos Papadopoulos Dimitrios Chlapoutakis Serapheim Tagarakis Georgios I Karangelis Dimos Lampoura Stefania Tsilimingas Nikolaos B |
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| description | <p>Abstract</p> <p>Accessory fissures represent a variation of the normal lung anatomy. Incomplete development or even the absence of the major or minor fissures can lead to confusion in distinguishing adjacent lobes. This report aims to present a rare intraoperative finding of an anatomic malformation of the right lung in a 19-year old male patient with recurrent pneumothorax who underwent a surgical repair. An accessory fissure which was separating the superior segment of the lower lobe from the basal segments gave to the whole lung the unique image of a four-lobed one. A profound knowledge of the accessory fissures, even if they are incidentally discovered, is of pivotal importance for the thoracic surgeon and leads to optimal operative assessment and strategic planning.</p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6953a4dd228a4c208f9914cf681ce0482022-12-22T03:05:31ZengBMCJournal of Cardiothoracic Surgery1749-80902011-10-016114510.1186/1749-8090-6-145How many lobes do you see?Tsantsaridou AngelikiDaskalopoulos Marios EHevas AthanasiosRoubelakis ApostolosPapadopoulos DimitriosChlapoutakis SerapheimTagarakis Georgios IKarangelis DimosLampoura StefaniaTsilimingas Nikolaos B<p>Abstract</p> <p>Accessory fissures represent a variation of the normal lung anatomy. Incomplete development or even the absence of the major or minor fissures can lead to confusion in distinguishing adjacent lobes. This report aims to present a rare intraoperative finding of an anatomic malformation of the right lung in a 19-year old male patient with recurrent pneumothorax who underwent a surgical repair. An accessory fissure which was separating the superior segment of the lower lobe from the basal segments gave to the whole lung the unique image of a four-lobed one. A profound knowledge of the accessory fissures, even if they are incidentally discovered, is of pivotal importance for the thoracic surgeon and leads to optimal operative assessment and strategic planning.</p>http://www.cardiothoracicsurgery.org/content/6/1/145accessory fissurelung deformityintraoperative image |
| spellingShingle | Tsantsaridou Angeliki Daskalopoulos Marios E Hevas Athanasios Roubelakis Apostolos Papadopoulos Dimitrios Chlapoutakis Serapheim Tagarakis Georgios I Karangelis Dimos Lampoura Stefania Tsilimingas Nikolaos B How many lobes do you see? Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery accessory fissure lung deformity intraoperative image |
| title | How many lobes do you see? |
| title_full | How many lobes do you see? |
| title_fullStr | How many lobes do you see? |
| title_full_unstemmed | How many lobes do you see? |
| title_short | How many lobes do you see? |
| title_sort | how many lobes do you see |
| topic | accessory fissure lung deformity intraoperative image |
| url | http://www.cardiothoracicsurgery.org/content/6/1/145 |
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