Successful surgical management of intralobar pulmonary sequestration in Ghana
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2022-02
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Journal of Surgical Case Reports
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Pulmonary sequestration occurs when a portion of lung tissue receives its blood supply from an anomalous systemic artery. Three
main presentations, intralobar, extralobar and communicating bronchopulmonary foregut malformations, have been described. It is
the second most common congenital lung anomaly. The intralobar variant is the most common type seen in 75% of cases, especially
in late childhood. Imaging of choice for diagnosis are computed tomography scan and magnetic resonance imaging. Management
involves surgical resection with ligation of the aberrant blood supply via thoracotomy or thoracoscopy. Endovascular therapy with
coil embolization of the aberrant anomalous systemic artery as a standard therapy or as a hybrid therapy is an option. We present
our successful surgical management of an infant diagnosed prenatally with congenital lung abnormality and confirmed postnatally
as intralobar pulmonary sequestration.
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This article is published by Journal of Surgical Case Reports, 2022 and is also available at https://doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjac085
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Journal of Surgical Case Reports, 2022, 4, 1–3