14 cases of intralobar sequestration of the lung are reviewed. There are 3 different patterns of clinical and radiological symptoms. Angiography is of great value in establishing the diagnosis and defining the anatomic details of the anomalous blood supply, allowing careful planning of the surgical procedure, which was a lower lobectomy in 12 cases. Segmental resections were feasible in 2 cases...

Pulmonary displacement associated with an anomalous artery has been frequently described since the advent of much chest surgery. The earliest adequate report of such a case is generally attributed to Tissler in his D#{252}sseldorf thesis, unpublished but quoted by Muller.’ Earlier classical descriptions by Rektorzek2 (1861), and Humphrey3 (1884) and later Simpson4 (1908) are quoted by McCotter....

Pulmonary sequestration is an unusual malformation consisting of isolated nonfunctioning lung segments lacking communication with functional tracheobronchial trees. Systemic blood supply is commonly from the thoracic aorta, but arteries occasionally arise from other sites. We report a rare form of pulmonary sequestration with arterial supply from the right coronary artery.

Three cases of pulmonary sequestration evaluated by bolus dynamic computed tomography are described. The computed tomography appearance and the differential diagnosis are discussed. It is important to recognize the advantages of the bolus dynamic technique in the evaluation of pulmonary sequestration as it may eliminate the need for further studies.

Pulmonary sequestration is a rare congenital malformation and may cause recurrent infections and hemoptysis. Although video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) is feasible, some drawbacks remain, mainly dealing the managing of anomalous vessels. We describe the use of a robotic system (da Vinci Robotic System, Surgical Intuitive, Mountain View, CA, USA) in the treatment of four consecutive cases o...

Pulmonary sequestration is a congenital anomaly in which aberrant, nonfunctioning lung tissue receives its entire blood supply from the systemic circulation. Early diagnosis may be difficult because the radiographic and clinical presentation may be mimicked by other lesions, such as cystic adenomatoid malformation, congenital bronchogenic cyst, pleural effusion, congenital diaphragmatic hernia,...

Tissues of bronchopulmonary origin, which have no communication with the bronchial tree and are supplied by anomalous vessels, are relatively rare and have been referred to by a variety of terms. These include accessory lung, sequestrated lobe of lung, ectopic lobe of lung, dissociated or dislocated lobe, aberrant lobe, or supernumerary lobe. The term 'sequestrated lobe' may not be entirely app...

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...

Aberrant systemic arteries supplying the intralobar pulmonary sequestration can become dilated and have atherosclerotic change. Computed tomography is very useful in demonstrating the aberrant artery. We report a case of intralobar pulmonary sequestration with giant branching aneurysmal aberrant artery, and demonstrated the discontinuity of the bronchus by 64-slice computed tomography, which ha...

We report a case of a 60-year-old female who was known to have intralobar pulmonary sequestration and her only symptom was chronic cough. She had no history of infections and surgical resection led to complete resolution of her chronic cough.