Intralobar Bronchopulmonary Sequestration of the Lung

Abstract

THE term "intralobar bronchopulmonary sequestration of the lung" has been used to describe the association of a congenital cyst of the lower lobe of a lung with an anomalous artery, which arises from the aorta usually at the level of the diaphragm.^{1 , 2} The original report by Huber in 1777 went essentially unnoticed until Harris redescribed the condition in 1940. Haight warned that failure to recognize the possibility of the entity may result in the surgeon's cutting the large vessel inadvertently. Three per cent of patients operated upon have died owing to such a mishap.³ The increase in the transthoracic approach . . .