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peripheral pulmonary cysts

peripheral cysts of the lung

Synopsis

- small intercommunating pulmonary cysts between the pleura and normal pulmonary parenchyma
- fibrovascular cyst

Associations

- trisomy 21 (Down syndrome)
- pulmonary infarction
- idiopathic spontaneous pneumothoral

See also

- pulmonary lesions