title: Role of embolisation in the treatment of bronchopulmonary sequestration.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Sequestrations represent bronchopulmonary malformations that are increasingly diagnosed antenatally. After birth, the therapeutic approach in asymptomatic children is debated, as some may spontaneously regress.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the efficacy of embolisation of the feeding systemic artery in the treatment of bronchopulmonary sequestration.
  
  
  METHODS
  Sixteen children with bronchopulmonary sequestration were treated by endovascular embolisation of the feeding systemic artery.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Ten patients were considered cured by embolisation alone. One patient was operated on after unsuccessful embolisation, three had partial regression of the lung mass and two are still under follow-up.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our experience indicates that bronchopulmonary sequestrations in children can be treated by embolisation alone.
authors: Department of Paediatric Radiology, Hôpital Necker Enfants Malades, Paris, France.
authors: F
authors: F
authors: Curros
authors: V
authors: V
authors: Chigot
authors: S
authors: S
authors: Emond
authors: N
authors: N
authors: Sayegh
authors: Y
authors: Y
authors: Revillon
authors: P
authors: P
authors: Scheinman
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Lebourgeois
authors: F
authors: F
authors: Brunelle
mesh_terms: D000792:Angiography; D001998:Bronchopulmonary Sequestration / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome