Unilateral pulmonary agenesis presenting in adulthood
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Unilateral pulmonary agenesis presenting in adulthood
Agenesis of lung,a rare congenital anomaly,may present in adult life with features of recurrent chest infections and radiologically may mimic many common conditions presenting as opaque hemithorax with ipsilateral shifting of mediastinum.Here, a case of a young man presenting with frequent attacks of cough expectoration and progressive dyspnoea since childhood,proved to be a case of left pulmon...
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Hitherto descriptions of some 200 cases of this condition have been published. In the majority of these reports a single case has been presented in detail together with the investigations showing how the diagnosis was made. Some authors have recorded a small series of cases, and in an effort to increase the number there has often tended to be indiscriminate use of the term agenesis. As a result...
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I read with great interest the article by Malcon et al. reporting the occurrence of unilateral pulmonary agenesis in an 8-year-old asymptomatic male child without other associated malformations, and I congratulate the authors on it. I would like to report that we treated a 3-month-old female infant, from the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, who had been born at term and had undergone prenatal te...
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Pulmonary agenesis is a rare congenital anomaly. We report the case of an 8-year-old boy with left lung agenesis, without any other congenital malformations. When the patient presented symptoms, including cough, wheezing, and dyspnea, with no clinical improvement after a period of 30 days, imaging studies were conducted and the diagnosis was made.
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عنوان ژورنال: Respiratory Medicine Case Reports
سال: 2012
ISSN: 2213-0071
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmedc.2011.05.003