Scimitar syndrome.
A seven month old female child admitted to intensive care unit with increasing respiratory distress. Clinical examination revealed absence of cyanosis, wide and fixed normal intensity second heart sound. Chest radiograph revealed crescent like radio opacity in right lower lung and subsequent contrast enhanced computed tomography (CT) chest demonstrated abnormal vessel in right lung draining into the inferior vena cava.
Kumar
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Department of Radio-diagnosis and Imaging, Kasturba Medical College Hospital, Karnataka, India.
Paudel
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D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D012131:Respiratory Insufficiency / Q000209:etiology; D012587:Scimitar Syndrome / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed