Bronchial atresia in an accessory lobe caused tension pneumothorax

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Aya Takeda Masaya Aoki Go Kamimura Kazuhiro Ueda Kota Kariatsumari Maeda Koki Mari Kirishima Masakazu Yanagi Masami Sato Naoya Yokomakura Nobuhiro Imamura Syoichiro Morizono Tadashi Umehara Takuya Tokunaga Tsunayuki Otsuka Yuto Nonaka

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Kazuhiro Ueda
Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima University, 8-35-1 Sakuragaoka, Kagoshima, 890-8520, Japan

A B S T R A C T

We report a case in which bronchial atresia in an accessory lobe caused tension pneumothorax. The atretic bronchus was found in an accessory lobe (right S6) that had been incompletely isolated from the right lower lobe during the fetal period. The accessory lobe was overinflated, leading to bullous formation due to the trapping of air. Video-assisted excision of the posterior lobe was successfully performed without any perioperative complications. The pathological findings were compatible with congenital bronchial atresia. This is the first report of bronchial atresia in an accessory lobe. We must keep this lesson in mind because such cases can suddenly develop serious complications.

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Case Report

Publication history

Received: Thu 06, Dec 2018
Accepted: Wed 19, Dec 2018
Published: Fri 28, Dec 2018

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© 2023 Kazuhiro Ueda. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.SCR.2018.03.027