Left Upper Lobectomy for Congenital Lobar Emphysema in a Low Weight Infant

Congenital lobar emphysema (CLE) is a rare lung congenital malformation. Differential diagnosis of the disease remains challenging in an infant with acute respiratory distress. We report a case of a 3-week-old female infant with a weight of 2.1 kg who presented respiratory distress related to CLE. L...

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Autores principales: Kanakis, Meletios, Petsios, Konstantinos, Bobos, Dimitrios, Sarafidis, Kosmas, Nikopoulos, Stefanos, Kyriakoulis, Konstantinos, Lioulias, Achilleas, Giannopoulos, Nicholas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5002461/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27597924
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/4182741
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Sumario:Congenital lobar emphysema (CLE) is a rare lung congenital malformation. Differential diagnosis of the disease remains challenging in an infant with acute respiratory distress. We report a case of a 3-week-old female infant with a weight of 2.1 kg who presented respiratory distress related to CLE. Left upper lobectomy was performed and she had an uneventful recovery.

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