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Pulmonary sequestration (intralobar)

Case contributed by Mohamed El Deen
Diagnosis almost certain

Presentation

Fever, cough and difficult breathing.

Patient Data

Age: 37
Gender: Unknown

Contrast enhanced CT scan of the chest shows typical features of intralobar pulmonary sequestration seen at the basal segment of left lung and supplied by feeding branches from  descending aorta.

The frontal radiograph shows left basal round shaped opacification overlying the cardiac shadow.

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