Unilateral pulmonary agenesis presenting in adulthood

Agenesis of lung,a rare congenital anomaly,may present in adult life with features of recurrent chest infections and radiologically may mimic many common conditions presenting as opaque hemithorax with ipsilateral shifting of mediastinum.Here, a case of a young man presenting with frequent attacks o...

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Autores principales: Roy, Partha P., Datta, Samadarshi, Sarkar, Anirban, Das, Anirban, Das, Soumya
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3920441/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26057001
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmedc.2011.05.003
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author Roy, Partha P.
Datta, Samadarshi
Sarkar, Anirban
Das, Anirban
Das, Soumya
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description Agenesis of lung,a rare congenital anomaly,may present in adult life with features of recurrent chest infections and radiologically may mimic many common conditions presenting as opaque hemithorax with ipsilateral shifting of mediastinum.Here, a case of a young man presenting with frequent attacks of cough expectoration and progressive dyspnoea since childhood,proved to be a case of left pulmonary agenesis on CT scan and bronchoscopy, is to be discussed.
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spelling pubmed-39204412014-10-15 Unilateral pulmonary agenesis presenting in adulthood Roy, Partha P. Datta, Samadarshi Sarkar, Anirban Das, Anirban Das, Soumya Respir Med Case Rep Case Report Agenesis of lung,a rare congenital anomaly,may present in adult life with features of recurrent chest infections and radiologically may mimic many common conditions presenting as opaque hemithorax with ipsilateral shifting of mediastinum.Here, a case of a young man presenting with frequent attacks of cough expectoration and progressive dyspnoea since childhood,proved to be a case of left pulmonary agenesis on CT scan and bronchoscopy, is to be discussed. Elsevier 2011-08-10 /pmc/articles/PMC3920441/ /pubmed/26057001 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmedc.2011.05.003 Text en © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/).
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Unilateral pulmonary agenesis presenting in adulthood
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title_short Unilateral pulmonary agenesis presenting in adulthood
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3920441/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26057001
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmedc.2011.05.003
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