A case of congenital pulmonary airway malformation discovered in adulthood

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  • Taki Reiko
    Department of Respiratory Medicine, Japanese Red Cross Musashino Hospital
  • Kamoshida Tatsuhiko
    Department of Respiratory Medicine, Yokosuka Kyosai Hospital
  • Sato Nozomi
    Department of Respiratory Medicine, Japanese Red Cross Musashino Hospital
  • Yamaki Haruna
    Department of Respiratory Medicine, Japanese Red Cross Musashino Hospital
  • Kozawa Tatsushi
    Department of Respiratory Medicine, Japanese Red Cross Musashino Hospital
  • Higashi Seishi
    Department of Respiratory Medicine, Japanese Red Cross Musashino Hospital
  • Takayama Koji
    Department of Respiratory Medicine, Japanese Red Cross Musashino Hospital
  • Hanada Satoko
    Department of Respiratory Medicine, Japanese Red Cross Musashino Hospital
  • Kojima Katsuo
    Department of Thoracic Surgery, Japanese Red Cross Karatsu Hospital
  • Ichimura Koichi
    Ichimura Clinic

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  • 【投稿/症例報告】成人期に発見された先天性肺気道奇形の1例

Abstract

The patient is a 54-year-old woman with bronchial asthma. She was diagnosed with a cystic lung lesion through a computed tomography scan and followed up as asymptomatic. Subsequently, she underwent lung wedge resection for infectious lung cysts due to repeated respiratory infections and was diagnosed with congenital pulmonary airway malformation (CPAM). Seven years post-surgery, no recurrence of airway infection or bronchial asthma attacks have occurred, and the patient is doing well.  It has been reported that CPAM is rarely detected at a relatively old age. Since there have been reports of complications such as infection and malignancy, it is advisable to consider this disease when cystic lung lesions occur and to select treatment methods based on age and complications.

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