A case is described of a baby boy aged 7 months who was found to have total sequestration of the right lung, the right main bronchus communicating with the lower end of the oesophagus. This was discovered during investigation for supposed asthma, as the child had wheezed since birth. No episodes of cyanosis or difficulties with feeding had occurred. The embryological considerations are discusse...

A localised fibrous mesothelioma arising from an intralobar lung sequestration occurred in a 64 year old Turkish woman. This appears to be the first report of a mesothelioma occurring within a pulmonary sequestration. (Thorax 1992;47:837-838) Department of Pathology N Paksoy M Altiner Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery A Demircan Department of Pulmonary Diseases M Artvinli School...

Intralobar pulmonary sequestration is a rare congenital abnormality of the lower respiratory tract which becomes symptomatic early in life. Clinical presentation may vary from asymptomatic state with incidental diagnosis while imaging to severe catastrophic hemoptysis. Here we report a case of intralobar pulmonary sequestration in a male of 36 years who continued to have hemoptysis for fourteen...

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...

The word ‘‘Obstructive’’ is misspelled in the article title. The correct title is: Increased Iron Sequestration in Alveolar Macrophages in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. The correct citation is: Philippot Q, Deslée G, Adair-Kirk TL, Woods JC, Byers D, et al. (2014) Increased Iron Sequestration in Alveolar Macrophages in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. PLoS ONE 9(5): e96285. doi:1...

Bilateral pulmonary sequestration (PS) is a very rare congenital malformation. We describe a case of bilateral intralobar pulmonary sequestration (ILS) in a newborn. Both sequestrations received arterial supply from separate branches of the descending aorta and venous drainage was into ipsilateral inferior pulmonary veins. Prenatal ultrasonography showed cystic changes in the lungs. Computed to...

Pulmonary sequestration is an uncommon congenital anomaly characterised by a mass of non-functional, dysplastic lung parenchyma that docs not communicate with the normal tracheobronchial tree. Such an anomaly commonly receives its blood supply from the systemic circulation. The sequestered pulmonary segment is considered to be intralobar if it is enclosed within the common pleura enveloping the...

OBJECTIVE Pulmonary sequestration (PS) is an uncommon congenital disease. Symptoms when present are usually secondary to pyogenic infection. Our objective was to draw attention on superimposed fungal infection. METHODS During the last 20 years, we operated upon 19 intralobar PS. Four of six patients operated during the last decade proved to have intralobar PS containing Aspergillus. RESULTS...

The sequestration within the lung of a mass of abnormal pulmonary tissue, the blood supply to which is systemic and not pulmonary, is an uncommon but clinically recognizable entity. The clinical and pathological features are reproduced from case to case with remarkable consistency, and it is important to recognize the condition because it produces symptoms, is amenable to surgical correction, a...

A. T., a 16 year-old Puerto Rican girl was admitted to the hospital with complaints of productive cough for three weeks, recent hemoptysis and weakness. She stated that she was very prone to upper respiratory infections and every winter she had had numerous “colds.” Three weeks prior to admission she developed a cough which was non-productive initially. In the week prior to admission she had ex...