Pulmonary & Respiratory Medicine

Amro Y Alastal

Publications

• Case Report
  Pulmonary Sequestration Supplied by an Aberrant Infra-diapharagmatic Artery
  Author(s): Hasan S Yamin and Amro Y AlastalHasan S Yamin and Amro Y Alastal
  
  Sequestered lung is a discrete mass of lung tissue, where airways do not connect with the rest of the tracheabronchial tree, and that receives its blood supply from a systemic artery rather than a pulmonary one, while sometimes maintaining normal venous drainage to the heart. Abnormal feeding arteries have been reported from the thoracic and abdominal aorta, celiac trunk, coronaries among others. In this article we describe a patient with left lower lobe sequestration supplied by a peculiar infra-diaphragmatic artery. .. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2161-105X.1000413

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