Right lung agenesis
Congenital pulmonary agenesis or aplasia is extremely rare. Although more than fifty percent of patients die before first five years of age, some individuals may remain asymptomatic throughout their life. A three-month-old female child with right pulmonary agenesis presented to us with severe respir...
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Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
2008-01-01
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| author | Kumar B Kandpal D Sharma C Sinha D |
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| description | Congenital pulmonary agenesis or aplasia is extremely rare. Although more than fifty percent of patients die before first five years of age, some individuals may remain asymptomatic throughout their life. A three-month-old female child with right pulmonary agenesis presented to us with severe respiratory distress. She was misdiagnosed as a case of foreign body bronchus at the peripheral health centre. Bronchoscopy confirmed the diagnosis and relieved the symptoms. It is recommended that invasive diagnostic procedures and prophylactic surgery should not be done in asymptomatic cases. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-afceed275973441ebc228279f8905f732022-12-22T01:28:20ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsAfrican Journal of Paediatric Surgery0189-67252008-01-0152102104Right lung agenesisKumar BKandpal DSharma CSinha DCongenital pulmonary agenesis or aplasia is extremely rare. Although more than fifty percent of patients die before first five years of age, some individuals may remain asymptomatic throughout their life. A three-month-old female child with right pulmonary agenesis presented to us with severe respiratory distress. She was misdiagnosed as a case of foreign body bronchus at the peripheral health centre. Bronchoscopy confirmed the diagnosis and relieved the symptoms. It is recommended that invasive diagnostic procedures and prophylactic surgery should not be done in asymptomatic cases.http://www.afrjpaedsurg.org/article.asp?issn=0189-6725;year=2008;volume=5;issue=2;spage=102;epage=104;aulast=KumarForeign body bronchuslung aplasiapulmonary agenesis |
| spellingShingle | Kumar B Kandpal D Sharma C Sinha D Right lung agenesis African Journal of Paediatric Surgery Foreign body bronchus lung aplasia pulmonary agenesis |
| title | Right lung agenesis |
| title_full | Right lung agenesis |
| title_fullStr | Right lung agenesis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Right lung agenesis |
| title_short | Right lung agenesis |
| title_sort | right lung agenesis |
| topic | Foreign body bronchus lung aplasia pulmonary agenesis |
| url | http://www.afrjpaedsurg.org/article.asp?issn=0189-6725;year=2008;volume=5;issue=2;spage=102;epage=104;aulast=Kumar |
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