This is a case of 18-year-old teenager presented with acute left sided chest pain for five days. This was associated with intermittent cough, and loss of weight in two weeks. Diagnosis was made by computed tomography of thorax plus angiogram that showed infected left intralobar pulmonary sequestration with lung abscess. Sputum culture grew . He completed 14 days of antibiotic and subjected to feeding artery embolization. The aim of this case report is to highlight on the uncommon presentation and the need of high index of suspicion of pulmonary sequestration with support by imaging findings.
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Department of Congenital Cardiac Surgery, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, 20097, San Donato, Milan, Italy.
Objectives: Congenital thoracic masses (CTMs) are suspected in presence of solid or cystic thoracic lesions at ultrasound. The common typical fetal CTMs encompass: hyperechogenic lung lesions such as congenital pulmonary airway malformation (CPAM), broncopulmonary sequestration (PS) and congenital high airway obstruction syndrome (CHAOS); less common solid thoracic masses are mediastinal/pericardial tumors as rhabdomyoma and teratoma. The aim of our study is to gather the available evidence on cases of atypical CTMs of difficult classification, for which the diagnosis remains often uncertain.
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Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan.
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Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.
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Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont (University of Montreal) 5415, l'Assomption, Montréal, QC, Canada.
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