We report on a 2-month-old infant girl who had right pulmonary agenesis and an unusual course of the left pulmonary artery. Computed tomography and cardiac catheterization showed that the left pulmonary artery arose from the main pulmonary artery, crossing the midline, and reaching the left lung via
Congenital agenesis of the right pulmonary artery
โ Scribed by Kevin R. Campbell; Richard Krasuski; Andrew Wang; Martin P. O'Laughlin; J. Kevin Harrison
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 180 KB
- Volume
- 51
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1522-1946
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