Unilateral pulmonary hypoplasia
2 Med-Mar Tibbi Goruntuleme Merkezi, Ankara, Turkey
3 Faculty of Medicine, Department of Anatomy, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey, Email: selcuktunali@gmail.com
4 Department of Anatomy, Gulhane Military Medical Academy, Ankara, Turkey, Email: hasanozan@gmail.com
Received: 19-Aug-2008 Accepted Date: Sep 24, 2008; Published: 13-Oct-2008, DOI: 10.37532/1308-4038.08.1.23
Citation: © IJAV. 2008; 1: 23–25.
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Abstract
Pulmonary hypoplasia represents a broad range of malformations characterized by incomplete development of lung tissue. The severity of the lesion depends on the appearance time of the malformation during the timeline of lung development, and the presence of further anatomic anomalies. In this report, we present a case of pulmonary hypoplasia in a 27-year old woman.