The Annals of thoracic surgery
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Case Reports
Pneumonectomy in an Older Patient With Swyer-James-MacLeod Syndrome With a Giant Bulla.
Swyer-James-MacLeod syndrome is a rare lung disease that appears as unilateral pulmonary hyperlucency on chest radiographs and is considered to occur as a result of childhood bronchiolitis obliterans. We report the case of a 54-year-old woman who experienced exertional dyspnea owing to Swyer-James-MacLeod syndrome associated with a giant calcified bulla that occupied the entire hemithorax. ⋯ Swyer-James-MacLeod syndrome is a rare disease characterized by unilateral pulmonary hyperlucency on chest radiography. In this case, Swyer-James-MacLeod syndrome associated with a giant calcified bulla that compressed the patient's left lung was treated with right pneumonectomy.