Communicating bronchopulmonary pancreatic foregut malformation

Ann Thorac Surg. 1999 Dec;68(6):2338-9. doi: 10.1016/s0003-4975(99)00869-3.

Abstract

Bronchopulmonary foregut malformations include intralobar and extralobar pulmonary sequestrations, bronchogenic cysts, and communicating bronchopulmonary foregut malformations (CBPFM). These malformations, formes frustes, originate as developmental abnormalities of ventral foregut budding of the tracheobronchial tree or the gastrointestinal tract. The communication's patency with the parent viscus determines if a contained malformation occurs, or if an abnormal communication persists as a CBPFM. This case demonstrates a unique example of a CBPFM in which the main pancreatic duct communicated with pulmonary parenchyma through a retroperitoneal fistula.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Bronchi / abnormalities*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Lung / abnormalities*
  • Pancreatic Fistula / congenital*
  • Respiratory Tract Fistula / congenital*