Congenital emphysema as a rare etiology of scoliosis

Bayram Metin; Olgun Kadir Arıbaş; Emre Özkan; Burhan Apiliğulları

doi:10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2015.9364

Bayram Metin¹, Olgun Kadir Arıbaş², Emre Özkan³, Burhan Apiliğulları⁴

¹Department of Thoracic Surgery, Medical Faculty of Bozok University, Yozgat, Turkey
²Department of Thoracic Surgery, Medical Faculty of Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey
³Department of Chest Diseases, Private Amasya Hospital, Amasya, Turkey
⁴Department of Thoracic Surgery, Medical Faculty of Necmettin Erbakan University, Konya, Turkey

DOI : 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2015.9364

Congenital emphysema is characterized by the hyperinflation of related lung field, compression of emphysematous lung space to the adjacent normal lung tissue, and mediastinal shift in neonatals. Scoliosis is a condition in which vertebrae are curved laterally. Although there are many factors causing scoliosis, to our knowledge, scoliosis developing secondary to emphysema was not reported in the literature. In this article, we present a scoliosis case which we believe developed due to congenital pulmonary emphysema.

Keywords : Congenital emphysema; pneumonectomy; scoliosis

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