1. Chest p64-65 (Congenital) Flashcards
Bronchial Atresia - Anatomy
Most commonly apical-posterior segment of left upper lobe.
Bronchial Atresia - imaging (2)
Blind ending bronchus, filled with mucus (finger in glove).
Distal lung hyperflated (from collateral drift and air trapping).
AVM - Cause (3)
Can occur sporadically.
HHT or Osler Weber Rendu
AVM - anatomy
more common in lower lobes (more vascularity)
AVM - clinical
Can be source of right to left shunt (source of stroke/brain abscess)
AVM - Rx
Treat once afferent vessel is 3mm
Persistent left SVC - anatomy (4)
Usually only significant if a line is inserted, line sits left paramedian.
Usually drains into coronary sinus.
5% drain into left atrium, causing mild right to left shunt (CT shows pacemaker or line going into right heart from left.
Persistent left SVC - Trivia
Commonest congenital venous abnormality of the chest.
Swyer-James - anatomy (3)
Classic unilateral left lung.
Occurs after viral lung infection in childhood, causing post infective obliterative bronchiolitis.
Size of affected lobe is smaller (not hyperexpanded).
Poland - anatomy (2)
Unilateral absence of pectoral muscle.
Associated with small arms/hands.
Poland - imaging
CXR shows hyperlucent chest on affected side.
Sequestration - types (2)
Intralobar (no pleural cover) and Extralobar (has pleural cover).
Cannot tell difference radiographically.
Intralobar sequestration (5)
More common (75%),
Presents in adolescents with recurrent infections.
Most commonly left lower lobe posterior segment (2/3), rarely affects upper lobes.
Rarely associated with other developmental abnormalities.
Pulmonary venous drainage
Extralobar sequestration (4)
Less common (25%),
Presents in infancy with respiratory compromise (mainly due to associated abnormalities)
Rarely infected as it has own pleural covering.
Systemic venous drainage.
Extralobar sequestration - associations (5)
CCAM (Congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation),
Congenital diaphragmatic hernia,
Vertebral anomalies,
Congenital heart disease,
Pulmonary hypoplasia