Prenatal identification of lung abnormalities has increased with prenatal surveillance. With the advent of improved antenatal imaging over the past ten years, the diagnosis, assessment and management of congenital cystic lung abnormalities have changed. These were once considered the exclusive domain of the surgeon, who had the authority to operate on all congenital cystic lung abnormalities re...

CCAM is an access method for general networks. It uses connectivity clustering. The nodes of the network are assigned to disk pages via the graph partitioning approach to maximize the CRR, i.e., the chances that a pair of connected nodes are allocated to a common page of the le. CCAM supports the operations of insert, delete, create, and nd as well as the new operations, get-A-successor and get...

Congenital cystic disease of the lung and mediastinum encompasses a continuum of entities, and a histological overlap of many of these anomalies is acknowledged. Moreover, it is possible for different lesions to coexist in the same patient. Careful evaluation prior to surgical resection will alert the surgeon to the possible presence of multiple lesions in one patient.

A series of 13 consecutive patients with a prenatal diagnosis of congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation (CCAM) were reviewed with respect to prenatal ultrasound findings, clinical features at birth, and postnatal outcome. In two cases (15%) the abnormality regressed in utero. Only three infants (23%) showed any respiratory distress at birth. After a mean of 25 months postnatal follow up, 11...

1 PDT Department of Cardiac Anaesthesiology Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research, Kolkata 2 Assistant Professor, Department of Cardiac Anaesthesiology Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research, Kolkata 3 Professor, Department of Cardiac Anaesthesiology Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research, Kolkata 4 Professor & Head, Department of Cardiac Anaesth...

BACKGROUND Congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation (CCAM) is a rare hamartomatous cystic lesion. Open fetal surgery currently provides a potential therapeutic option for management of a fetus with CCAM diagnosis. CASE SUMMARY A 22-year-old G2P0 woman presented at (Equation is included in full-text article.)weeks' gestation for evaluation of a fetus with a left lung lesion and diagnosed as ...

Development of the respiratory system begins at 3 weeks gestation, and aberrations in the developmental processes may give rise to a group of structural abnormalities collectively referred to as bronchopulmonary foregut malformations (BPFMs). The common BPFMs include congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation (CCAM), pulmonary sequestration, congenital lobar emphysema, and bronchogenic cysts (B...

Cystic lymphangioma is a congenital cystic malformation that occurs mostly in children. While it is mainly found in the cervix, cases in the chest wall are very rare. We report a case of cystic lymphangioma found in the chest wall of a 2-month-old girl. The patient was noted to have a tumor in the left chest wall at birth. Since it gradually increased in size, the patient was referred to our de...