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Case Report
Flexible Bronchoscopic Finding of Congenital Lobar Emphysema
Young Mee Seo, Jung Yeon Shim, Bong Seong Kim, So Duk Lim, Soo-Jong Hong
Clin Exp Pediatr. 2000;43(1):133-137.   Published online January 15, 2000
Congenital lobar emphysema is a rare disease and a cause of respiratory distress in early infancy. The most common location of pulmonary involvement is the left upper lobe. We diagnosed a case of congenital lobar emphysema in a 5-month-old female infant, who had a complex heart disease using flexible bronchoscopy. In spite of palliative heart surgery, respiratory difficulty and cyanosis did not improve and...
Congenital Lobar Emphysema
Cheal Gee Kim, Do Hee Choi, Jin Bok Hwang, Chang Ho Han, Hye Li Chung, Young Dae Kwon
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1994;37(3):429-433.   Published online March 15, 1994
We had experienced a case of congenital lobar emphysema in a 3months old male infant. Chief symptoms included tachypnea, respiratory difficulty, cyanosis. Chest X-ray or chest CT scan revealed extensive emphysematous changes of the right upper and middle lobes, compression of the right lower lobe and shifted of mediastinum to the left side. This condition was appeared in the absence...
Original Article
Congenital cystic diseases of the lung.
Won Soon Park, Young Pyo Chang, Hee Ju Kim, Young Yull Koh, Jung Hwan Choi, Chong Ku Yun, Joo Hyun Kim
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1991;34(12):1671-1677.   Published online December 31, 1991
Congenital cystic diseases of the lung (CCDL) is a clinical group of disorders characterized by a cystic appearance of pulmonary tissue. It can be classified into four distinct categories: 1) Congenital lobar emphysema (CLE), 2) Congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation (CCAM), 3) Pulmonary sequeestration (PS), and ^Bronchogenic cyst (BC). 24 patients with CCDL admitted to the Seoul National University Children’s Hospital from January 1984 to June...
Case Report
Congenital Lobar Emphysema.
Jin Tae Kim, Ki Hong Suh, Suk Chul Kang, Chang Il Ahn
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1981;24(1):85-87.   Published online January 15, 1981
Congenital lobar emphysema is characterized by overdistension and air trapping in the affected lobe, concomitant compression of remaining long tissue, displacement of the mediastinum by herniation of the emphysematons lobe across the anterior mediastinum into the opposite chest. The occurrence of this condition early in life, its sudden appearance in the absence of infection and foreign body in the bronchus...