Colonisation with Aspergillus of an intralobar pulmonary sequestration.

J Freixinet, J de Cos, F Rodriguez de Castro, G Julia, T Romero

Thoracic Surgery Service, Hospital Universitario Ntra. Sra. del Pino, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain.

Pulmonary sequestration is a term used to describe an area of embryonic lung tissue supplied by an anomalous systemic artery. Two forms are recognised-extralobar and intralobar-with different clinical presentations. A patient is reported with intralobar pulmonary sequestration in the left lung and colonisation with Aspergillus which was successfully treated by lower lobectomy.

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