Abstract
SUMMARY Pulmonary sequestration is an uncommon usually cystic mass of nonfunctioning primitive tissue that does not communicate with the tracheobronchial tree that receives it’s blood supply from an anomalous systemic artery rather than the pulmonary arteries. Intralobar pulmonary sequestration is usually diagnosed later in childhood or adulthood when the patient presents with pulmonary infection. Many patients with extralobar pulmonary sequestration present during infancy with pulmonary respiratory distress and chronic cough. Here, we reported a case of extralobar pulmonary sequestration found coincidentally on chest radiograph in a nine year old girl during routine preoperative investigations for
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