Putative criteria for predicting spontaneous regression of prenatally diagnosed thoracoabdominal cystic lesions.

Purpose: Cystic lesions are common findings during prenatal ultrasonography but their prenatal and postnatal prognosis is difficult to establish because of some regress spontaneously. The purpose of this study was to identify putative criteria to predict regression of partially or completely cystic lesions detected by prenatal ultrasound.

Methods: Prenatal ultrasound features of thoracic or abdominal cystic lesions were retrospectively analyzed.

Bronchogenic cyst: Clinical course from antenatal diagnosis to postnatal thoracoscopic resection.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to describe an approach to surgical management of bronchogenic cysts based on the natural course observed from the time of antenatal screening to surgical resection in patients treated at our institution and reported in the literature.

Materials And Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the clinical features of all children presenting bronchogenic cyst diagnosed antenatally from 2007 to 2010. A total of six children were included.

Congenital lung malformation: evaluation of prenatal and postnatal radiological findings.

Background And Objective: This study evaluated the accuracy of prenatal MRI and postnatal CT imaging in the identification of congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation and bronchopulmonary sequestration by comparison with histological analysis.

Methods: Over a 3-year period, 15 patients with lung malformations diagnosed prenatally by ultrasound were referred for prenatal MRI, and all were investigated postnatally by chest CT. All asymptomatic newborns with unresolved lesions underwent elective surgery by thoracoscopy.

Intralobar sequestration associated with cystic adenomatoid malformation: diagnostic and thoracoscopic pitfalls.

Background: Intralobar sequestration (ILS) associated with congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation (CCAM) is a well-known entity. This hybrid form has many considerations for an appropriate management. This report aims to analyze pitfalls in the diagnosis, treatment, and thoracoscopic procedure pertaining to this association.