There was no history of a foreign body in the nose at any time before. Anterior rhinoscopy showed a rough dark stony mass covered with greenish discharge. Probing gave a metallic sound. Postnasal examination showed a greenish discharge. A clinical diagnosis of a rhinolith was made. Radiology showed the rhinolith's position (Fig. 1) in the floor of the right nostril with mucosal thickening of th...

OBJECTIVE To describe an unusual clinical presentation of intra-abdominal extralobar pulmonary sequestration in a 2-year, 9 month-old patient and assess diagnostic and treatment aspects of this pathology. CASE DESCRIPTION An undefined intra-abdominal mass was identified in the right adrenal region in a male fetus. Postnatal evaluation with ultrasound images, computed tomography, magnetic reso...

Extralobar pulmonary sequestration (EPS) is a rather uncommon congenital anomaly. Most patients are diagnosed in their early life or during the first decade because of the early appearance of symptoms, including feeding difficulty, cyanosis, and dyspnea, or because of symptoms arising from the associated congenital abnormalities. Extralobar pulmonary sequestration is more often found between th...

Pulmonary sequestration is a rare congenital malformation that is uncommonly diagnosed during adulthood. Pulmonary sequestrations can manifest with variable presentations. It can remain asymptomatic or present with more severe symptoms such as hemoptysis and recurrent pneumonia. Diagnosis can be confirmed with computed tomography angiogram or angiography. Treatment with embolization of the affe...

BACKGROUND This case report describes two cases of extralobar pulmonary sequestration in adults with and without torsion/necrosis. CASE REPORTS Non-complicated extralobar pulmonary sequestration was found incidentally in a 50-year-old asymptomatic woman (Case 1), diagnosed with the presence of a branching structure in a mass lesion and blood supply from the right inferior phrenic artery. Anot...

We describe surgical resection of an extralobar pulmonary sequestration via single-incision thoracoscopic surgery (SITS), which we recommend as a suitable surgical option. A 45-year-old Japanese woman was admitted to our hospital for further examination of chest abnormal shadow. A rigid 5-mm 30° video-thoracoscope, an endograsper and an electric cautery were passed within the same single small ...

Pulmonary sequestration is a rare developmental abnormality where pulmonary tissue lacks normal connections to the tracheobronchial tree, in addition to its having an anomalous systemic blood supply. Lobectomy via open thoracotomy has long been the procedure of choice for the resection of pulmonary sequestration. We present three cases of thoracoscopic lobectomies performed using video-assisted...

We report the case of a neonate affected by prenatally diagnosed congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH), treated by thoracoscopy. During the procedure, we detected an associated extralobar pulmonary sequestration (EPS), which was preoperatively undiagnosed, and we removed it. EPS has been shown to be associated with CDH in up to 15 to 40% of cases. A possible explanation hypothesized is that pul...

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...