Open AccessCombined endovascular and surgical approaches to treat intralobar pulmonary sequestration: a case report
Author(s) -
Lu Wang,
S. Balasubramanian,
Rupert Jackson,
Deepak Agrawal
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
annals of the royal college of surgeons of england
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.39
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1478-7083
pISSN - 0035-8843
DOI - 10.1308/rcsann.2020.0201
Subject(s) - medicine , pulmonary sequestration , surgery , pulmonary artery , gold standard (test) , abnormality , radiology , accidental , surgical resection , endovascular treatment , lung , aneurysm , physics , psychiatry , acoustics
Pulmonary sequestration is a congenital abnormality of a non-functional pulmonary mass with anomalous systemic arterial supply. Surgical resection is the gold standard treatment, but it carries a risk of life-threatening haemorrhage from accidental injury of the anomalous artery. Endovascular embolisation has been introduced as a safe alternative, but does not eliminate the possibility of symptom recurrence. We report a case of a 61-year old woman with intralobar pulmonary sequestration treated with a combination of endovascular coil embolisation and surgical resection.