Complete Right Lung Agenesis with Dextrocardia: An Unusual Cause of Respiratory Distress

Pulmonary agenesis, defined as complete absence of bronchus, parenchyma, and vessels is a very rare condition. Herein, we report a 4-month-old infant who presented with fever, cough, and respiratory distress and was misdiagnosed in a peripheral hospital as a case of pneumonia. The child was, later d...

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Autores principales: Nandan, Devki, Bhatt, Girish Chandra, Dewan, Vivek, Pongener, Imkongkumzuk
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3551508/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23393637
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2156-7514.105140
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Bhatt, Girish Chandra
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description Pulmonary agenesis, defined as complete absence of bronchus, parenchyma, and vessels is a very rare condition. Herein, we report a 4-month-old infant who presented with fever, cough, and respiratory distress and was misdiagnosed in a peripheral hospital as a case of pneumonia. The child was, later diagnosed as having right lung agenesis with dextrocardia.
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spelling pubmed-35515082013-02-07 Complete Right Lung Agenesis with Dextrocardia: An Unusual Cause of Respiratory Distress Nandan, Devki Bhatt, Girish Chandra Dewan, Vivek Pongener, Imkongkumzuk J Clin Imaging Sci Case Report Pulmonary agenesis, defined as complete absence of bronchus, parenchyma, and vessels is a very rare condition. Herein, we report a 4-month-old infant who presented with fever, cough, and respiratory distress and was misdiagnosed in a peripheral hospital as a case of pneumonia. The child was, later diagnosed as having right lung agenesis with dextrocardia. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012-12-27 /pmc/articles/PMC3551508/ /pubmed/23393637 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2156-7514.105140 Text en Copyright: © 2012 Nandan D http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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