Respiratory Medicine CME
Volume 2, Issue 4 , Pages 162-163, 2009

Congenital lobar emphysema in a teenager presented by a persisting pneumothorax

  • J.M. Douwes

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatrics, Medisch Spectrum Twente, Postbus 50.000, 7500 KA Enschede, The Netherlands
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Riouwstraat 9a, 9715 BS Groningen, The Netherlands. Tel.: +31 6 20174570; fax: +31 53 4872310.
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  • R.F.H.M. Tummers

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatrics, Medisch Spectrum Twente, Postbus 50.000, 7500 KA Enschede, The Netherlands
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  • A.G. Hensens

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Medisch Spectrum Twente, Postbus 50.000, 7500 KA Enschede, The Netherlands
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  • M. Wagenaar

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pulmonology, Medisch Spectrum Twente, Postbus 50.000, 7500 KA Enschede, The Netherlands
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  • B.J. Thio

      Affiliations

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

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

 

PII: S1755-0017(09)00017-7

doi:10.1016/j.rmedc.2009.01.015

Respiratory Medicine CME
Volume 2, Issue 4 , Pages 162-163, 2009

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