Intra-abdominal extra lobar pulmonary sequestration communicating with gastric duplication -- a case report.
Gastric duplications with associated pulmonary sequestration are very infrequent abnormalities. Although often asymptomatic, they should be considered in the differential diagnosis of intra-abdominal or retro-peritoneal masses. The authors report the case of a ten-year-old boy who had an occasional finding of poorly symptomatic intra-abdominal mass, recognised at intervention as a gastric duplication with associated extralobar pulmonary sequestration. The authors describe the surgical treatment of this case and briefly discuss the current views on the embryological pathogenesis of such malformations.
Saggese
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Service of Paediatric Surgery, Salerno General Hospital, Salerno, Italy. antoniodrsaggese@libero.it
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D001998:Bronchopulmonary Sequestration / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013270:Stomach / Q000002:abnormalities*