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Abstract
Case Report
A Case of Pulmonary Sequestration with Atypical Mycobacterial Infection
Takashi Sekine1) 3) Khaled Reshad2) Satoshi Kosaba1)
1)Pulmonary Division, Matsue Red-Cross Hospital 2)Reshad Clinic 3)Department of Artificial Organs, Research Center for Biomedical Engineering, Kyoto University
ABSTRACT
A 30-year-old woman complaining of cough, bloody sputum and left chest pain was admitted to our hospital. She had a history of recurrent pneumonia in the left lower lobe. On admission an abnormal shadow was recognized in the left lower lobe on chest radiograph. An enhanced CT scan showed an abnormal blood vessel extending from the descending aorta to the left lower lung. Aortography also indicated one aberrant artery, 15 mm in diameter, extending from the thoracic aorta to the left lower lobe. Pulmonary sequestration was subsequently diagnosed, and left lower lobectomy was later performed. Pathological examination after surgery revealed epithelioid cell granulomas and atypical Mycobacteria avium were detected on sputum culture. Cases of pulmonary sequestration complicated by atypical mycobacterial infection are rare.
KEYWORDS
Pulmonary sequestration Atypical mycobacteria
Received 平成9年8月22日
JJRS, 36(4): 399-402, 1998
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