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Congenital lobar emphysema is a rare disease and a cause of respiratory distress in early infancy.
The most common location of pulmonary involvement is the left upper lobe. We diagnosed a case
of congenital lobar emphysema in a 5-month-old female infant, who had a complex heart disease
using flexible bronchoscopy. In spite of palliative heart surgery, respiratory difficulty and cyanosis
did not improve and... |
