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Summary
Hepatopulmonary fusion is an extremely rare accompaniment of right congenital diaphragmatic hernia. It is associated with abnormal systemic arterial supply and venous drainage of the right lung along with congenital heart disease. Children with this condition have a comparatively poor prognosis. We report a case of right congenital diaphragmatic hernia with hepatopulmonary fusion along with review of the literature with stress on diagnosis and management.
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Contributors VJ, DKY, DKG and DK took part in conception and design, manuscript preparation and editing. DKY and DK reviewed the manuscript for intellectual content and were involved in literature search. All authors were involved in clinical management of patient, data acquisition and manuscript review. VJ is the guarantor.
Competing interests None declared.
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