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Rare Case of Unilateral Hypoplasia of Lung with Associated Ventricular Mass in an Adult
Author(s) -
Lavina Mirchandani,
Mohammad Azad Alam,
Aparna Iyer,
Jayalakshmi Thelapurath Kutty
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of clinical and diagnostic research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2249-782X
pISSN - 0973-709X
DOI - 10.7860/jcdr/2016/19591.8138
Subject(s) - medicine , lung , hypoplasia , diaphragm (acoustics) , ventricle , genitourinary system , left lung , pediatrics , anatomy , physics , acoustics , loudspeaker
Hypoplasia of the lung is a rare congenital condition which can be: a) primary i.e. no apparent cause is found; or b) secondary i.e. associated with other congenital anomalies that are implicated in its pathogenesis. These anomalies may involve the diaphragm, cardiovascular, central nervous, urogenital and musculoskeletal system. Patients usually present in neonatal, infancy or childhood period and very rarely in adulthood. Our patient was an adult having a unilateral hypoplastic lung associated with a ventricular mass and to our knowledge this rare combination has never been reported in the English literature; though there are reports of prenatal or newborns with hypoplastic lung and rhabdomyoma of ventricle who did not survive.

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