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A pulmonary azygos lobe encountered during thoracotomy for modified Blalock-Taussig shunt
National Cardiothoracic Centre, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, PO Box KB 846, Korle Bu, Accra, Accra, KB 846, Ghana
Correspondence to:
Frank Edwin, fedwin68@yahoo.com
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A 3-year-old boy was scheduled for a modified Blalock-Taussig shunt (MBTS) on account of tetralogy of Fallot. A right posterolateral thoracotomy was used. On entering the chest, a "fourth lung lobe" was found (fig 1) medial to a pleural fold extending from the apex of
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