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- Title
Diaphragmatic defect or pulmonary sequestration in a five-year-old boy.
- Authors
Pantović, Fanika; Stojković, Anđelka; Paunović, Milan; Savić, Dragana; Simović, Aleksandra Bušetić
- Abstract
This case report presents a 5-year-old boy with diaphragmatic defect with a tardy clinical manifestation. The findings of chest x-ray and chest CT scan were seen by pediatricians and radiologists as interstitial pneumonia and suspected pulmonary sequestration, pediatric surgeons saw it as a benign teratoma and during surgery a muscular defect of hemidiaphragm right was found. This case emphasize the rarity of diaphragmatic hernia in children of older age, the importance of "accented" clinical suspicion based on the maintenance of signs of mild respiratory failure, the need for additional radiological tests and surgery with the aim to diagnose this abnormality and "successfulness" of prenatal ultrasound examination.
- Subjects
PULMONARY fibrosis; DIAPHRAGMATIC hernia; ULTRASONIC imaging; TERATOMA; RESPIRATORY insufficiency
- Publication
Medicinski Glasnik, 2013, Vol 10, Issue 2, p403
- ISSN
1840-0132
- Publication type
Article