title: Diaphragmatic defect or pulmonary sequestration in a five-year-old boy.
abstract: This case report presents a 5-year-old boy with diaphragmatic defect with a tardy clinical manifestation. The findings of chest x-ray and chest CT scan were seen by pediatricians and radiologists as interstitial pneumonia and suspected pulmonary sequestration, pediatric surgeons saw it as a benign teratoma and during surgery a muscular defect of hemidiaphragm right was found. This case emphasize the rarity of diaphragmatic hernia in children of older age, the importance of "accented" clinical suspicion based on the maintenance of signs of mild respiratory failure, the need for additional radiological tests and surgery with the aim to diagnose this abnormality and "successfulness" of prenatal ultrasound examination.
authors.affiliation: 1Health Center Kragujevac, 2Paediatric Clinic, 3Pediatric Surgery Clinic; Clinical Center and University, Kragujevac; Kragujevac, Serbia.
authors.forename: Fanika
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Pantović
authors.forename: Anđelka
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Stojković
authors.forename: Milan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Paunović
authors.forename: Dragana
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Savić
authors.forename: Aleksandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bušetić-Simović
mesh_terms: D001998:Bronchopulmonary Sequestration; D065630:Hernias, Diaphragmatic, Congenital; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed