title: Late diagnosis of extralobar pulmonary sequestration: two cases with an uncommon malformation.
abstract: Pulmonary sequestration is a congenital bronchopulmonary malformation, characterized by a mass of nonfunctioning lung tissue which receives its blood supply from a systemic artery. This increased blood flow and the inflammation in the sequestrated segments are positive on PET imaging, arousing the suspicion of malignancy. We report two cases of PET-positive extralobar sequestration that presented in patients of middle age and were successfully treated with surgical resection, indicating the role of surgery and the false-positive PET-CT appearance of sequestration cases.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nigde State Hospital, Nigde, Turkey. sevman13@yahoo.com
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Evman
authors.forename: H F
authors.initials: HF
authors.lastname: Batirel
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yüksel
mesh_terms: D001998:Bronchopulmonary Sequestration / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D057210:Delayed Diagnosis; D005189:False Positive Reactions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D013908:Thoracotomy; D013997:Time Factors; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed