Accessory lungs with foregut connexion.

Connexion with Operator Semigroups

Some Clinical Aspects of Accessory Lobes of the Human Lungs *

Until quite recently accessory lobes of the human lungs have been of but little interest except to the anatomist. To the clinician they were an unknown quantity. The X-ray has been disclosing them without their presence being appreciated. For years an unusual, fine, curved, linear shadow was noted very occasionally in the upper right-lung field, extending from the apex to a point near the media...

Ciliated Hepatic Foregut Cyst with Obstructive Jaundice

Ciliated hepatic foregut cysts (CHFCs) are rare congenital cystic lesion that are most often solitary, unilocular, and located in the subcapsular region of the medial segment of the left hepatic lobe. The mucoid fluid contents affect imaging studies and often make definitive diagnosis difficult. CHFCs are usually asymptomatic and found incidentally. We report a 69-year-old female patient with a...

Intrapericardial foregut cyst associated with intrauterine death.

Intrapericardial developmental foregut cysts are rare and are most frequently incidental findings at necropsy in adults. A 29 year old Asian woman delivered a 24 week stillborn fetus seven days after diagnosis of intrauterine death caused by rupture of a foregut cyst. Multiple cysts occupied the wall of the right atrium and its rupture caused haemopericardium and cardiac tamponade.

"Communicating" bronchopulmonary foregut malformations.

The clinical, radiologic, and pathologic features of four children with uncommon variations of congenital bronchopulmonary foregut malformations are presented. In each case, the malformation included a persistent communication between lung tissue and the gastrointestinal tract. One case, in which an esophageal bronchus was associated with esophageal atresia and tracheoesophageal fistula, is con...