No satisfactory classification for congenital anomalies of the bronchopulmonary airway and related vasculature has yet been described. An attempt was made to overcome this problem by expanding the concept of "sequestration" (originally intended as a single entity) to include a range of bronchovascular anomalies. This has failed to gain universal acceptance and led us to develop an alternative n...

Introduction Bronchopulmonary sequestration (BPS) may cause prenatal pleural effusion (PE) or even hydrops. This case describes a fetus presenting with severe PE, which prenatally waned completely under steroid treatment, yet surprisingly reappeared rapidly after birth, requiring early surgical intervention. Case description A male fetus was diagnosed with left BPS and severe PE. After three ...

A case of acute onset non-cardiogenic pulmonary edema induced by hydrochlorothiazide (HCT) is presented. Rapid recovery was obtained with supportive therapy. Leukopenia was evident during the acute phase, with rapid recovery parallel to the clinical improvement, suggesting pulmonary sequestration of granulocytes. Immunological studies including lymphocyte stimulation test with HCT and measureme...

We present a child with a rare finding of an extralobar pulmonary sequestration localized in the upper mediastinum. Findings of the prenatal screening enabled early postnatal diagnostic measures that revealed a heterogeneous mass situated next to the thymus. Based on the localization and inconclusive computed tomography images, the preoperative prediagnoses included enterogenic cyst, thymus cys...

BACKGROUND Anomalous systemic arterial supply to the normal basal lung segments is a sequestration spectrum variant (Pryce type 1) that is distinguished from pulmonary sequestration by normal bronchopulmonary and parenchymal tissues. CASE PRESENTATION A 33-year-old Japanese man was referred to our hospital because of an abnormal pulmonary shadow. Computed tomography showed two aberrant arteri...

The classic definition of the scimitar syndrome is a triad of hypoplasia of the right lung with anomalous venous drainage and a systemic arterial supply of a variable degree. We report a case in which a scimitar-shaped anomalous vein was observed on the plain chest radiograph, but subsequently a pulmonary angiogram showed that it drained normally into the left atrium.

The anesthesia ex utero intrapartum treatment (EXIT) procedure is a specialized surgical procedure used to deliver babies who have airway compression due to cystic adenomatoid malformation, bronchopulmonary sequestration, cervical teratomas, or other congenital conditions. EXIT is erroneously known as a routine cesarean section (CS), but is rather an extension of CS with discernible differences...

A 51-year-old male patient had a history of recurrent pneumonia since the second decade of life. Interestingly, chest X-rays indicated the same radiological pattern with left lower lobe involvement. A multislice spiral CT scan of the chest was performed and depicted an anomalous arterial vessel emerging from the descending thoracic aorta towards the left lower pulmonary lobe, characterising pul...