Pulmonary Sequestration Presenting with Recurrent Abdominal Pain

Abstract

Pulmonary sequestration is a rare congenital malformation of the pulmonary system. This nonfunctioning cystic or solid mass is asymptomatic unless infected. Patients primarily present with pulmonary symptoms such as cough, hemoptysis, dyspnea, chest pain, and fever due to recurrent pulmonary infections. We report herein the case of a young woman who presented with recurrent left upper abdominal pain and was diagnosed by contrast-enhanced computed tomography as intralobar pulmonary sequestration.

An atypical presentation of pulmonary sequestration

“…[ 7 ] Recurrent abdominal pains in a patient with PS have been reported. [ 8 ] The unique aspect of our case involves the patient presenting with postprandial epigastric pain together with the celiac artery feeding the PS lobe, which up to best of our knowledge, has never been reported. We hypothesize the origin of postprandial pain as abdominal angina from steal syndrome.…”