Background: Sequestrations represent bronchopulmonary malformations that are increasingly diagnosed antenatally. After birth, the therapeutic approach in asymptomatic children is debated, as some may spontaneously regress.
Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of embolisation of the feeding systemic artery in the treatment of bronchopulmonary sequestration.
Materials and methods: Sixteen children with bronchopulmonary sequestration were treated by endovascular embolisation of the feeding systemic artery.
Results: Ten patients were considered cured by embolisation alone. One patient was operated on after unsuccessful embolisation, three had partial regression of the lung mass and two are still under follow-up.
Conclusions: Our experience indicates that bronchopulmonary sequestrations in children can be treated by embolisation alone.