Extralobar pulmonary sequestration with pulmonary arterial blood supply : A case report

Abstract

A 2-month-old girl admitted to hospital because of a tumor shadow in the left upper lung field on the chest X-rays. The chest CT scan showed the tumor was in the left upper mediastinum. Left thoracotomy was performed to resect this tumor, which was dignosed as extralobar pulmonary sequestration. The arterial supply of this sequestrated lung tissue derived from a branch of the left pulmonary artery and venous drainage was into the left superior intercostal vein. We reviewed Japanese literatures and could not find such a case until now.