Bronchopulmonary Sequestration
"Bronchopulmonary Sequestration" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A developmental anomaly in which a mass of nonfunctioning lung tissue lacks normal connection with the tracheobroncheal tree and receives an anomalous blood supply originating from the descending thoracic or abdominal aorta. The mass may be extralobar, i.e., completely separated from normally connected lung, or intralobar, i.e., partly surrounded by normal lung.
| Descriptor ID |
D001998
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C08.695.214 C16.131.740.214
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| Concept/Terms |
Bronchopulmonary Sequestration- Bronchopulmonary Sequestration
- Pulmonary Sequestration
- Sequestrations, Pulmonary
- Sequestration, Bronchopulmonary
- Sequestration, Pulmonary
- Sequestrations, Bronchopulmonary
- Bronchopulmonary Sequestrations
- Pulmonary Sequestrations
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Hernanz-Schulman M, Johnson JE, Holcomb GW, Neblett WW, Heller RM, Ambrosino MM. Retroperitoneal pulmonary sequestration: imaging findings, histopathologic correlation, and relationship to cystic adenomatoid malformation. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 1997 May; 168(5):1277-81.