title: Communicating bronchopulmonary pancreatic foregut malformation.
abstract: Bronchopulmonary foregut malformations include intralobar and extralobar pulmonary sequestrations, bronchogenic cysts, and communicating bronchopulmonary foregut malformations (CBPFM). These malformations, formes frustes, originate as developmental abnormalities of ventral foregut budding of the tracheobronchial tree or the gastrointestinal tract. The communication's patency with the parent viscus determines if a contained malformation occurs, or if an abnormal communication persists as a CBPFM. This case demonstrates a unique example of a CBPFM in which the main pancreatic duct communicated with pulmonary parenchyma through a retroperitoneal fistula.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, New York 10025, USA.
authors.forename: G F
authors.initials: GF
authors.lastname: Rahman
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Bhardwaj
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Suster
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Arliss
authors.forename: C P
authors.initials: CP
authors.lastname: Connery
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001980:Bronchi / Q000002:abnormalities*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000002:abnormalities*; D010185:Pancreatic Fistula / Q000151:congenital*; D016156:Respiratory Tract Fistula / Q000151:congenital*