Congenital lobar hyperinflation (or congenital lobar emphysema) is the most frequent fetal/neonatal pulmonary anomaly, before congenital pulmonary airway malformations (CPAMs).
Differential diagnosis
unilobar congenital pulmonary lymphangiectasis (15136998)
Associations
intralobar pulmonary sequestration (15995872)
pulmonary lobar lymphangiectasis (HP.13341) (4715376, 5936105)
See also
lungs
- pulmonary malformations
References
Mani H, Suarez E, Stocker JT. The morphologic spectrum of infantile lobar emphysema: a study of 33 cases. Paediatr Respir Rev. 2004;5 Suppl A:S313-20. PMID: 14980289