Diagnostic value of echocardiography in isolated congenital unilateral lung agenesis combined with different anomalies: Two rare cases in children.
Unilateral lung agenesis, a rare congenital deformity, is secondary to abnormal embryonic development, leading to a shift of the mediastinum and remaining lung. In our case reports, we describe the diagnostic courses of two pediatric patients with unilateral lung agenesis admitted to our hospital in 2014. We present and compare the findings in transthoracic echocardiography with that in CT. Echocardiography played a pivotal role in revealing pulmonary deformities and leading to the diagnosis. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Ultrasound 44:514-517, 2016.
['He|Huan|H|', 'Sun|Feifei|F|', 'Ren|Weidong|W|', 'Wang|Yonghuai|Y|', 'Xu|Shu|S|']
D000015:Abnormalities, Multiple D002675:Child, Preschool D003914:Dextrocardia D004452:Echocardiography D005260:Female D006801:Humans D007223:Infant D008168:Lung D008171:Lung Diseases D008297:Male D011651:Pulmonary Artery D015203:Reproducibility of Results D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
echocardiography computed tomography pulmonary agenesis