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Thoracoscopic treatment of pulmonary sequestration☆

Author(s) -

Peter Kestenholz,

Didier Schneiter,

Sven Hillinger,

Didier Lardinois,

Walter Weder

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

european journal of cardio-thoracic surgery

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.303

H-Index - 133

eISSN - 1873-734X

pISSN - 1010-7940

DOI - 10.1016/j.ejcts.2006.02.018

Subject(s) - pulmonary sequestration , medicine , bronchopulmonary sequestration , surgery , hemothorax , pneumothorax , thoracotomy , chest tube , pneumonia , mediastinal shift , radiology , retrospective cohort study , lung , left pulmonary artery , pulmonary artery

Pulmonary sequestration is a rare congenital malformation and may be the cause of recurrent infections or hemoptysis. It has been shown in case reports that resection by video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) is feasible despite the possible technical difficulties due to inflammatory changes, but its role has not been evaluated yet in a larger series of consecutively treated patients.

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