Pulmonary hypoplasia with hepatic and renal anomalies in a dead fetus.
Pulmonary hypoplasia is a developmental malformation characterized by incomplete development of lung tissue. During routine fetal autopsy of an apparently normal female dead fetus of 36 weeks gestation presented completely hypoplastic left lung, partially hypoplastic right lung, right-sided shift of heart, right-sided shift of trachea, left-sided diaphragmatic hernia through which an extra lobe from left lobe of liver extended into the left half of thoracic cavity. Left kidney was iliac in position.
Department of Anatomy, Sri Venkateswara Institue of Medical Scineces, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India.
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