Left lung agenesis discovered by a spontaneous pneumothorax in a 20-year-old girl

Lung agenesis is a rare condition which prognosis widely depends on associated malformations. Clinical presentation is so variable and diagnosis is often made in childhood. Here, we present a case of a 20-year-old girl who was admitted because of a spontaneous pneumothorax. Explorations concluded at...

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Autores principales: Hentati, Abdessalem, Neifar, Chawki, Abid, Walid, M’saad, Sameh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4797443/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27051112
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.177443
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author Hentati, Abdessalem
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description Lung agenesis is a rare condition which prognosis widely depends on associated malformations. Clinical presentation is so variable and diagnosis is often made in childhood. Here, we present a case of a 20-year-old girl who was admitted because of a spontaneous pneumothorax. Explorations concluded at a left lung agenesis, a hyperinflated right lung crossing the midline with a corresponding pneumothorax. There was no malformation else. This congenital condition and treatment for this rare presentation are discussed in detail.
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spelling pubmed-47974432016-04-05 Left lung agenesis discovered by a spontaneous pneumothorax in a 20-year-old girl Hentati, Abdessalem Neifar, Chawki Abid, Walid M’saad, Sameh Lung India Case Report Lung agenesis is a rare condition which prognosis widely depends on associated malformations. Clinical presentation is so variable and diagnosis is often made in childhood. Here, we present a case of a 20-year-old girl who was admitted because of a spontaneous pneumothorax. Explorations concluded at a left lung agenesis, a hyperinflated right lung crossing the midline with a corresponding pneumothorax. There was no malformation else. This congenital condition and treatment for this rare presentation are discussed in detail. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4797443/ /pubmed/27051112 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.177443 Text en Copyright: © Lung India http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Hentati, Abdessalem
Neifar, Chawki
Abid, Walid
M’saad, Sameh
Left lung agenesis discovered by a spontaneous pneumothorax in a 20-year-old girl
title Left lung agenesis discovered by a spontaneous pneumothorax in a 20-year-old girl
title_full Left lung agenesis discovered by a spontaneous pneumothorax in a 20-year-old girl
title_fullStr Left lung agenesis discovered by a spontaneous pneumothorax in a 20-year-old girl
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title_short Left lung agenesis discovered by a spontaneous pneumothorax in a 20-year-old girl
title_sort left lung agenesis discovered by a spontaneous pneumothorax in a 20-year-old girl
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4797443/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.177443
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