Left Upper Lobectomy for Congenital Lobar Emphysema in a Low Weight Infant
Congenital lobar emphysema (CLE) is a rare lung congenital malformation. Differential diagnosis of the disease remains challenging in an infant with acute respiratory distress. We report a case of a 3-week-old female infant with a weight of 2.1 kg who presented respiratory distress related to CLE. L...
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| description | Congenital lobar emphysema (CLE) is a rare lung congenital malformation. Differential diagnosis of the disease remains challenging in an infant with acute respiratory distress. We report a case of a 3-week-old female infant with a weight of 2.1 kg who presented respiratory distress related to CLE. Left upper lobectomy was performed and she had an uneventful recovery. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-4a9acf202a194a4182dcf9d08694d4152025-02-03T07:24:45ZengWileyCase Reports in Surgery2090-69002090-69192016-01-01201610.1155/2016/41827414182741Left Upper Lobectomy for Congenital Lobar Emphysema in a Low Weight InfantMeletios Kanakis0Konstantinos Petsios1Dimitrios Bobos2Kosmas Sarafidis3Stefanos Nikopoulos4Konstantinos Kyriakoulis5Achilleas Lioulias6Nicholas Giannopoulos7Department of Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Athens, 17674 Kallithea, GreeceDepartment of Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Athens, 17674 Kallithea, GreeceDepartment of Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Athens, 17674 Kallithea, GreeceDepartment of Neonatology and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Hippokration Hospital, 54642 Thessaloniki, GreeceDepartment of Neonatology and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Hippokration Hospital, 54642 Thessaloniki, GreeceDepartment of Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Athens, 17674 Kallithea, GreeceDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Sismanoglio General Hospital of Athens, 15126 Marousi, GreeceDepartment of Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Athens, 17674 Kallithea, GreeceCongenital lobar emphysema (CLE) is a rare lung congenital malformation. Differential diagnosis of the disease remains challenging in an infant with acute respiratory distress. We report a case of a 3-week-old female infant with a weight of 2.1 kg who presented respiratory distress related to CLE. Left upper lobectomy was performed and she had an uneventful recovery.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/4182741 |
| spellingShingle | Meletios Kanakis Konstantinos Petsios Dimitrios Bobos Kosmas Sarafidis Stefanos Nikopoulos Konstantinos Kyriakoulis Achilleas Lioulias Nicholas Giannopoulos Left Upper Lobectomy for Congenital Lobar Emphysema in a Low Weight Infant Case Reports in Surgery |
| title | Left Upper Lobectomy for Congenital Lobar Emphysema in a Low Weight Infant |
| title_full | Left Upper Lobectomy for Congenital Lobar Emphysema in a Low Weight Infant |
| title_fullStr | Left Upper Lobectomy for Congenital Lobar Emphysema in a Low Weight Infant |
| title_full_unstemmed | Left Upper Lobectomy for Congenital Lobar Emphysema in a Low Weight Infant |
| title_short | Left Upper Lobectomy for Congenital Lobar Emphysema in a Low Weight Infant |
| title_sort | left upper lobectomy for congenital lobar emphysema in a low weight infant |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/4182741 |
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