Spontaneous regression of fetal pulmonary sequestration
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Spontaneous regression of pulmonary sequestration: prenatal and postnatal imaging findings.
A 28-year-old woman at 24 weeks gestation was referred to our hospital for evaluation of a fetal lung mass. The differential diagnosis initially included pulmonary sequestration (PS) and microcystic congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation (CCAM), the latter because 2D color Doppler ultrasonography (US) showed no systemic artery feeding into the fetal lung lesion. At 25 weeks’ gestation, a co...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0960-7692
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-0705.1995.06010033.x