Right lung agenesis

Alberto Sosa Olavarría, MD; Y. Martínez de Mora, MD.

Valencia, Venezuela.

Case report
   
The following images show a case of the right lung agenesis detected during the second trimester ultrasound.

Images 1, 2: The image 1 shows a transverse scan at the level of the abdomen (left part of the image) and on teh right part as well as on image 2, a  transverse scan of the fetal thorax with the dextropositioned heart due to the right lung agenesis.

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Image 3: Postnatal X-ray image of the thorax showing the right lung agenesis.

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Video 1: The video shows the transverse scans at the level of the abdomen and fetal thorax with the dextropositioned heart due to the right lung agenesis.

 

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