Recurrent Peumonia in an Infant With an Esophageal Lung
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Date
2020-03
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Indian Academy of Pediatrics
Abstract
Esophageal lung is a rare variety of communicatingbronchopulmonary foregut malformation with anomaolouscommunication between an isolated portion of respiratory tissueand esophagus. Children present in early life with recurrentcough and pneumonia. Majority of the reported cases areassociated with other anomalies like tracheoesophageal fistula.We report a case of a 7-month-old girl with right sidedesophageal lung who was misdiagnosed as dextrocardia withright sided pneumonitis
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Bronchopulmonary, Dextrocardia, Lungmalformation, Recurrent cough
Citation
thakur Neha, Agarwal Dipti, Narayan Shamrendra, Shukla Deepanshu. Recurrent Peumonia in an Infant With an Esophageal Lung. Indian Pediatrics. 2020 Mar; 57(3): 266-267