Case ReportsInfection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis complicating a pulmonary sequestration
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Pulmonary sequestration is a congenital malformation characterized by the presence of lung tissue with abnormal or absent communication with the bronchial tree and arterial blood supply from the systemic circulation. A sequestration within the visceral pleura is classified as intralobar sequestration (approximately 75% of cases), whereas a sequestration outside the visceral pleura is classified as extralobar sequestration. Intralobar sequestration affects the lower lobes in almost all the cases
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Identification of nontuberculous mycobacterial infection by IS6110 and hsp65 gene analysis on lung tissues
2010, Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious DiseaseCitation Excerpt :Pulmonary sequestration is a malformation characterized by the absence of communication with the bronchial tree and presence of abnormal blood supply from a systemic artery. Despite the high frequency of various bacterial infections, infected pulmonary sequestration due to mycobacteria is rarely reported (Elia et al., 1998; Shiota et al., 2002; Sparks et al., 2008; Yatera et al., 2005). In the other 2 patients who did not fit our main clinical and histologic categories, no granulomatous inflammation could be found in their surgical specimens.
Pulmonary sequestration: A single-institutional series composed of 27 cases
2007, Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular SurgeryCitation Excerpt :Some of the patients with PS do not have any symptoms and the diagnosis is made by accident (15.5% of ILS patients and 10% of ELS patients).9 Severe complications of both ELS and ILS, which included fatal hemoptysis14 and massive hemothorax,15,16 cardiovascular complications,17,18 superimposed infections such as fungal infection19 and tuberculosis,20 and benign21 and malignant tumors,22 have been published. These severe complications necessitate the removal of the PS lesion if the diagnosis is certain.
An Alternate Route: 64-Slice CT Diagnosis of Pulmonary Pseudosequestration
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