1994 Volume 55 Issue 6 Pages 1460-1464
A 37-year-old woman, presenting with dry cough and fever, was pointed out an abnormal shadow in the left lower lobe. Angiography revealed an abnormal artery which branched from the aorta on a level of the 10th thoracic vertebra and was distributed over the left basal segment was observed, but the pulmonary artery at the same region was absent. Bronchography did not reveal branching abnormality.
We understand that pulmonary sequestration is a mobit state in which pulmonary tissues separated from the normal ones receive the blood flow from an artery of the systemic circulation. Here the present case is described not to be categorized into the pulmonary sequestration and the so-called Pryce classification is discussed. In addition some consideration on the increased CEA level in this case is presented, together with a review of the literature.
