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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author Kanakis, Meletios
Petsios, Konstantinos
Bobos, Dimitrios
Sarafidis, Kosmas
Nikopoulos, Stefanos
Kyriakoulis, Konstantinos
Lioulias, Achilleas
Giannopoulos, Nicholas
author_facet Kanakis, Meletios
Petsios, Konstantinos
Bobos, Dimitrios
Sarafidis, Kosmas
Nikopoulos, Stefanos
Kyriakoulis, Konstantinos
Lioulias, Achilleas
Giannopoulos, Nicholas
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description 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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spelling pubmed-50024612016-09-05 Left Upper Lobectomy for Congenital Lobar Emphysema in a Low Weight Infant Kanakis, Meletios Petsios, Konstantinos Bobos, Dimitrios Sarafidis, Kosmas Nikopoulos, Stefanos Kyriakoulis, Konstantinos Lioulias, Achilleas Giannopoulos, Nicholas Case Rep Surg Case Report 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. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016 2016-08-15 /pmc/articles/PMC5002461/ /pubmed/27597924 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/4182741 Text en Copyright © 2016 Meletios Kanakis et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under 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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Kanakis, Meletios
Petsios, Konstantinos
Bobos, Dimitrios
Sarafidis, Kosmas
Nikopoulos, Stefanos
Kyriakoulis, Konstantinos
Lioulias, Achilleas
Giannopoulos, Nicholas
Left Upper Lobectomy for Congenital Lobar Emphysema in a Low Weight Infant
title Left Upper Lobectomy for Congenital Lobar Emphysema in a Low Weight Infant
title_full Left Upper Lobectomy for Congenital Lobar Emphysema in a Low Weight Infant
title_fullStr Left Upper Lobectomy for Congenital Lobar Emphysema in a Low Weight Infant
title_full_unstemmed Left Upper Lobectomy for Congenital Lobar Emphysema in a Low Weight Infant
title_short Left Upper Lobectomy for Congenital Lobar Emphysema in a Low Weight Infant
title_sort left upper lobectomy for congenital lobar emphysema in a low weight infant
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url 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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