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  • Title: Antenatal diagnosis of extralobar pulmonar sequestration.
    Author: Houda el M, Ahmed Z, Amine K, Amina BS, Raja F, Chiraz H.
    Journal: Pan Afr Med J; 2014; 19():54. PubMed ID: 25667716.
    Abstract:
    Extralobar pulmonary sequestrations (ELS) are masses of non-functioning lung tissue that are supplied by an anomalous systemic artery and do not have a bronchial connection to the native tracheobronchial tree. On prenatal ultrasonography, an ELS appears as a well-defined echodense, homogeneous mass. Detection by color flow Doppler ultrasonography of a systemic artery from the aorta to the fetal lung lesion is a pathognomonic feature of fetal ELS. MR imaging may help in the diagnosis of pulmonary sequestration by demonstrating a solid, well-defined mass, and the feeding artery. In this case report, we describe the sonographic and MR diagnosis of an ELS in a fetus at 22 weeks gestation with a review of the available literature.
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