Adult male with non-resolving opacity in the right hemithorax

Pulmonary agenesis is a well-known but rare congenital anomaly of the respiratory system. It represents failure of development of the primitive lung bud. We are reporting bilobar agenesis of the right lung associated with multisystem involvement in an adult patient.

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Autores principales: Chaudhry, Liaqat Ali, Zamzami, Marwan, Robert, Asirvatham Alwin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2014
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4406385/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25922628
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2014.19.339.5290
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spelling pubmed-44063852015-04-28 Adult male with non-resolving opacity in the right hemithorax Chaudhry, Liaqat Ali Zamzami, Marwan Robert, Asirvatham Alwin Pan Afr Med J Case Report Pulmonary agenesis is a well-known but rare congenital anomaly of the respiratory system. It represents failure of development of the primitive lung bud. We are reporting bilobar agenesis of the right lung associated with multisystem involvement in an adult patient. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2014-12-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4406385/ /pubmed/25922628 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2014.19.339.5290 Text en © Liaqat Ali Chaudhry et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. 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 work is properly cited.
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Chaudhry, Liaqat Ali
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Robert, Asirvatham Alwin
Adult male with non-resolving opacity in the right hemithorax
title Adult male with non-resolving opacity in the right hemithorax
title_full Adult male with non-resolving opacity in the right hemithorax
title_fullStr Adult male with non-resolving opacity in the right hemithorax
title_full_unstemmed Adult male with non-resolving opacity in the right hemithorax
title_short Adult male with non-resolving opacity in the right hemithorax
title_sort adult male with non-resolving opacity in the right hemithorax
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4406385/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25922628
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2014.19.339.5290
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