Abstract

ACUNA FERNANDEZ, Leoncio; ACUNA ZAVALA, Paulo Diego; ANYOSA PALOMINO, Víctor  and  SOTOMAYOR CASTILLO, Claudia. lntralobar pulmonary sequestration: an intraoperative finding. Horiz. Med. [online]. 2016, vol.16, n.4, pp.75-80. ISSN 1727-558X.

The case of a 3 year-old female patient, who was intraoperative diagnosed with intralobar pulmonary sequestration located in the lower lobe of the left lung, is reported. Pulmonary sequestration is a rarecongenital pulmonary malformation characterized by a non-functionalmass of lung tissue, which is irrigatedby an abnormalsystemic artery, general!y originated in the descending aorta;its intralobar variety manifests as recurrent pneumonia. Definitive diagnosis is made after identifying the abnormal artery with imaging techniques (MSCT with contrast and Doppler echocardiography). There is no national incidence study on this condition. The following case is the first pulmonary sequestration case reported in the city of Huacho, Perú

Keywords : congenital pulmonary malformation; pulmonary sequestration; pulmonary lobectomy.

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