Congenital lung cysts in a newborn. About a case

Abstract

Congenital pulmonary malformations, especially congenital pulmonary cysts, are a heterogeneous group of alterations in lung development that can occur at different stages of embryogenesis, affecting the parenchyma, the arterial supply, the venous drainage or being a combination of them. A clinical case is presented where it analyzes the congenital pulmonary malformations in a newborn patient at the term of adequate weight for the gestational age, in the same as when entering the Neonatology service. To the radiological control in which an image of bubbles of air trapped in the left base is visualized, initial suspicion of diaphragmatic hernia, the same that is discarded at 24 hours, changing to a diagnosis of congenital pulmonary malformations. Congenital lung cysts.