PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Sreekar Gundapaneni
AU  - Vishesh Jain
AU  - Shilpa Sharma
AU  - Devendra Kumar Gupta
TI  - Perforated neuroenteric cyst masquerading as congenital pulmonary airway malformation
AID  - 10.1136/bcr-2017-222537
DP  - 2017 Dec 02
TA  - BMJ Case Reports
PG  - bcr-2017-222537
VI  - 2017
4099  - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2017/bcr-2017-222537.short
4100  - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2017/bcr-2017-222537.full
AB  - A 3-month-old child was presented with haemoptysis with respiratory distress. Imaging was suggestive of a cavitary lesion in the lung with surrounding consolidation. Diagnosis of a primary lung pathology like congenital pulmonary airway malformation was considered. Based on clinical suspicion and prior experience, a Tc-99m pertechnetate radionuclide study was performed, which clinched the diagnosis of foregut duplication cyst. Intraoperative findings confirmed the presence of a neuroenteric cyst. The child remains asymptomatic on follow-up awaiting neurosurgical intervention for the intraspinal component of the cyst.