Video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy for pulmonary sequestration

Innes Y P Wan; Tak Wai Lee; Alan D L Sihoe; Calvin S H Ng; Anthony P C Yim

doi:10.1016/s0003-4975(01)03012-0

Video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy for pulmonary sequestration

Ann Thorac Surg. 2002 Feb;73(2):639-40. doi: 10.1016/s0003-4975(01)03012-0.

Authors

Innes Y P Wan¹, Tak Wai Lee, Alan D L Sihoe, Calvin S H Ng, Anthony P C Yim

Affiliation

¹ Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, People's Republic of China. yimap@cuhk.edu.hk

PMID: 11848095
DOI: 10.1016/s0003-4975(01)03012-0

Abstract

Pulmonary sequestration is a rare developmental abnormality, and the patients usually present with recurrent pneumonia. We report a case of video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy in a 32-year-old woman with an intrapulmonary sequestration in the left lower lobe.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adult
Bronchopulmonary Sequestration / diagnosis
Bronchopulmonary Sequestration / surgery*
Female
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Angiography
Pneumonectomy*
Pulmonary Artery / pathology
Pulmonary Artery / surgery
Pulmonary Veins / pathology
Pulmonary Veins / surgery
Surgical Staplers
Suture Techniques
Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted*