RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Perforated neuroenteric cyst masquerading as congenital pulmonary airway malformation
JF BMJ Case Reports
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP bcr-2017-222537
DO 10.1136/bcr-2017-222537
VO 2017
A1 Sreekar Gundapaneni
A1 Vishesh Jain
A1 Shilpa Sharma
A1 Devendra Kumar Gupta
YR 2017
UL http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2017/bcr-2017-222537.abstract
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.