Video-assisted thoracoscopic lingulectomy for type 1 congenital pulmonary airway malformation in an adult patient: a case report

Kuthan Kavaklı; Nesrin Öcal; Sedat Gürkök; Okan Karataş; Önder Öngörü

doi:10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2017.12825

Kuthan Kavaklı¹, Nesrin Öcal², Sedat Gürkök¹, Okan Karataş¹, Önder Öngörü³

¹Departments of Thoracic Surgery, Gülhane Military Medical Academy, Ankara, Turkey
²Departments of Chest Diseases, Gülhane Military Medical Academy, Ankara, Turkey
³Departments of Pathology, Gülhane Military Medical Academy, Ankara, Turkey

DOI : 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2017.12825

Congenital pulmonary airway malformation is a rare embryogenic developmental anomaly of the lower respiratory tract in adulthood. In this article, we report a 38-year-old male patient with congenital pulmonary airway malformation, admitted with an 8 cm-diameter air cyst in the upper lobe of left lung. Air cyst was resected by video-assisted thoracoscopic lingulectomy. The histopathological examination of the lingular segment revealed type 1 congenital pulmonary airway malformation. Surgical resection is both diagnostic and curative for congenital pulmonary airway malformation. In cystic lesions, congenital pulmonary airway malformation should be kept in mind and appropriate surgical intervention should be performed.

Keywords : Adult; congenital pulmonary airway malformation; lingulectomy; video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery

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