Congenital lobar emphysema in a teenager presented by a persisting pneumothorax

Received 26 November 2008; accepted 12 January 2009.

Abstract

Congenital lobar emphysema (CLE) is classically a disease of infants, in which pneumothorax is a rare complication. We present a 14-year-old girl with a spontaneous pneumothorax, which persisted on thorax drainage and was caused by a newly diagnosed CLE.

Keywords: Emphysema/bullae, Lobectomy (lung), Lung, Congenital lesions, Pneumothorax

a Department of Pediatrics, Medisch Spectrum Twente, Postbus 50.000, 7500 KA Enschede, The Netherlands

b Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Medisch Spectrum Twente, Postbus 50.000, 7500 KA Enschede, The Netherlands

c Department of Pulmonology, Medisch Spectrum Twente, Postbus 50.000, 7500 KA Enschede, The Netherlands

Correspondence to: Riouwstraat 9a, 9715 BS Groningen, The Netherlands. Tel.: +31 6 20174570; fax: +31 53 4872310.

PII: S1755-0017(09)00017-7

doi:10.1016/j.rmedc.2009.01.015

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