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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2007;133:1384-1385
© 2007 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Brief Communication

Necessary resection of the left lower lobe due to systemic arterial supply

Rogier Jaspers, MDa,*, Wout Barendregt, MD, PhDa, Gijs Limonard, MDb, Frank Visser, MDb

a Department of General Surgery, Canisius Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
b Department of Pulmonology, Canisius Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Received for publication December 16, 2006; accepted for publication January 8, 2007.

* Address for reprints: Rogier Jaspers, MD, Department of Surgery, Canisius Wilhelmina Ziekenhuis, Weg dour Jonkerbosch 100, Nijmegen, Gelderland, 6532 SZ, The Netherlands. (Email: rogier.jaspers@gmail.com).

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Symptomatic lung sequesters are usually treated with resection.1Go Most often the aberrant arterial supply is ligated or reimplanted onto the pulmonary artery. Baek and colleagues2Go recently described a patient with anomalous arterial supply of a left basal segment of the lung in which mere ligation of the anomalous artery produced a satisfactory result.2Go We present a similar case in which resection had to be performed despite our initial goal to preserve the entire lung.

Clinical Summary

A 34-year-old man was referred with recurrent episodes of hemoptysis. Chest radiography showed enhanced vascularization in the lower left quadrant. Computed tomographic scan revealed a solid lesion in the posterobasal segment of the left lower lobe with an anomalous artery originating from . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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