A rare association; pulmonary blastoma developing on extrapulmonary sequestration basis.

Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Adnan Menderes University, School of Medicine, 09010 Aydin, Turkey.

Published: July 2010

Pulmonary blastoma (PB) is a thoracopulmonary mesenchymal disembryogenic neoplasm which is rarely seen and generally in childhood. Pulmonary sequestration is one of the less observed congenital malformations. A 45-year-old female patient who was diagnosed with PB, histopathologically developed on atypically placed extrapulmonary sequestration in the left upper zone is presented in this study.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1510/icvts.2010.232900DOI Listing

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