workbook chapter 60 fetal thorax

Question 1

asphyxiating thoracic dystrophy

Answer 1

significantly narrow diameter of the chest in the fetus

Question 2

bronchogenic cyst

Answer 2

most common lung cyst detected prenatally

Question 3

congenital bronchial atresia

Answer 3

pulmonary anomaly that results from focal obliteration of a segment of the bronchial lumen

Question 4

congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation

Answer 4

abnormality in the formation of the bronchial tree with secondary overgrowth of mesenchymal tissue from arrested bronchial development.

Question 5

congenital diaphragmatic hernia

Answer 5

opening in the pleuroperitoneal membrane that develops in the first trimester

Question 6

foramen of morgagni

Answer 6

foramen of morgagni diaphragmatic hernia that occurs anterior and medial in the diaphragm that may communicate with the pericardial sac

Question 7

foramen of bochdalek

Answer 7

type of diaphragmatic defect that occurs posterior and lateral in the diaphragm usually found in the left side.

Question 8

lymphangiectasia

Answer 8

dilation of a lymph node

Question 9

pleural effusion

Answer 9

pleural effusion accumulation of fluid within the thoracic cavity

Question 10

pulmonary hypoplasia

Answer 10

small underdeveloped lungs with resultant reduction in lung volume secondary to prolonged oligohydramnios or as a consequence of a small thoracic cavity

Question 11

pulmonary sequestration

Answer 11

extrapulmonary tissue present within the pleural lung sac or connected to the inferior border of the lung within its own pleural sac.