Intralobar pulmonary sequestration complicating with pulmonary cryptococcosis:A case report and review of the literature
This study reports a 52-year-old male patient with pulmonary sequestration(PS)and pulmonary cryptococcosis(PC)who was admitted to the hospital due to cough,expectoration,and chest tightness,chest computed tomography(CT)showed an mass beside the spine in the right lower lung and a nodule in the left lower lung.CT-guided percutaneous lung bi-opsy confirmed that the right lower lung mass was pulmonary sequestration and the left lower lung nodule was cryptococcal infection.The patient underwent video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery to remove pulmonary sequestration lobe,and oral flu-conazole was administered for the PC nodule in the left lower lung.The patient was followed regularly for 3 years after sur-gery,and contrast-enhanced CT revealed the disappearance of the PC nodule in the left lower lung,as well as the improved outcome of the right lower pulmonary sequestration after surgery.We summarized the clinical manifestations,treatment and outcome of a case of pulmonary sequestration complicated with cryptococcosis,and aimed to improve clinicians'understand-ing of this disease.
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