[A case of congenital bronchial atresia with obstructive pneumonia accompanied with partial anomalous pulmonary venous drainage]

Nihon Kyobu Shikkan Gakkai Zasshi. 1991 Jul;29(7):873-7.
[Article in Japanese]

Abstract

A 25-year-old male was admitted with productive cough and an abnormal shadow on chest X-ray film which showed a cylindrical shadow near the left hilum and consolidation in the markedly hyperlucent left upper lung field. The cylindrical shadow appeared to be located in left S1+2 but bronchographic examination showed independence of the branches of B1+2. Furthermore, pulmonary venography by DSA showed that the left upper pulmonary vein entered the left brachiocephalic vein. The patient underwent left partial lobectomy under a diagnosis of congenital bronchial atresia with partial anomalous pulmonary venous drainage. Pathological examination of the resected lung revealed obstructive pneumonia in the over-inflated lung zone, probably induced through collateral airways.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Abnormalities, Multiple / surgery*
  • Adult
  • Bronchi / abnormalities*
  • Bronchography
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Pneumonectomy*
  • Pneumonia / etiology*
  • Pneumonia / pathology
  • Pneumonia / surgery
  • Pulmonary Veins / abnormalities*
  • Pulmonary Veins / diagnostic imaging