title: Prenatal and postnatal management of congenital bronchial atresia (CBA): single tertiary center report.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To summarize our diagnosis and management experience of congenital bronchial atresia (CBA).
  
  
  METHODS
  A retrospective review was conducted, clinical data were collected of all patients with CBA.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Among the nine patients (5 males and 4 females), six cases with right side and three cases with left cases, including one patient with mainstem bronchial atresia (MBA), two cases with lobar bronchial atresia (LBA), six cases with segmental bronchial atresia (SBA). Eight were diagnosed as congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation (CCAM) type III by ultrasound (US) in prenatal. The MBA patient was diagnosed by computed tomography (CT) and bronchofibroscopy, only two patients by pathological findings and the other six patients by CT. Five cases were accompanied by CCAM, one case with bronchopulmonary sequestration (BPS), two cases with emphysema. Eight cases except MBA were underwent thoracoscopic surgery treatment and had favorable prognosis. Two cases with LBA merged with complication of pectus excavatum after surgery. One case with MBA had no surgery and died in the 13 days old.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  CBA is an easily misdiagnosed disease from pathologic conditions, definitive diagnosis of this condition depends on combination CT or clinical pathologic diagnosis. Thoracoscopic resection is a safe and feasible treatment of CBA in experienced hands.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Maternal-Fetal Medicine , Guangdong Women and Children Hospital , Guangzhou , China.
authors.forename: Gang
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.affiliation: a Department of Maternal-Fetal Medicine , Guangdong Women and Children Hospital , Guangzhou , China.
authors.forename: Bo
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Xia
authors.affiliation: a Department of Maternal-Fetal Medicine , Guangdong Women and Children Hospital , Guangzhou , China.
authors.forename: Zhu
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: a Department of Maternal-Fetal Medicine , Guangdong Women and Children Hospital , Guangzhou , China.
authors.forename: Baisha
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.affiliation: a Department of Maternal-Fetal Medicine , Guangdong Women and Children Hospital , Guangzhou , China.
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: a Department of Maternal-Fetal Medicine , Guangdong Women and Children Hospital , Guangzhou , China.
authors.forename: Chun
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hong
authors.affiliation: a Department of Maternal-Fetal Medicine , Guangdong Women and Children Hospital , Guangzhou , China.
authors.forename: Ning
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Shang
authors.affiliation: a Department of Maternal-Fetal Medicine , Guangdong Women and Children Hospital , Guangzhou , China.
authors.forename: Jing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tang
mesh_terms: D001980:Bronchi / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D015619:Respiratory System Abnormalities / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013906:Thoracoscopy; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016216:Ultrasonography, Prenatal
keywords: Fetal; congenital bronchial atresia; diagnosis; surgery