• Indian J Med Sci · Jul 2012

    Case Reports

    Unilateral lung hypoplasia: a rare cause of unilateral opaque hemithorax in chest X-ray in a young boy.

    • Soumya Bhattacharjee, Jaydip Deb, Arunabha Dattachaudhuri, Sumit Roy Tapadar, Aparup Dhua, Tanmay Mukherjee, and Priyanka Ghosh.
    • Department of Chest Medicine, RG Kar Medical College, Kolkata, India. drsoumya76@gmail.com
    • Indian J Med Sci. 2012 Jul 1;66(7-8):192-6.

    AbstractCongenital abnormalities of lung are very rare entity, and very often under or misdiagnosed by physicians. The present case, a 12-year boy, who was initially diagnosed as unilateral massive pleural effusion with collapse of lung, and after thorough investigation, including CT scan of thorax, fiber-optic bronchoscopy, and echocardiography, a final diagnosis of unilateral lung hypoplasia was made. So if a teenager present with a unilateral opaque hemithorax in chest X-ray, this entity may be a differential diagnosis.

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