RARE CASE OF PULMONARY SEQUESTRATION DIAGNOSED ANTENATALLY.

Abstract

Iind trimester anomaly scans play a vital role in identifying the anatomical abnormalities in the fetus and thus help in planning and prognosis of pregnancy. Pulmonary sequestration is an not a common condition in which a separate lung tissue is formed, which is not a anatomical structures of the lung tissue, not its blood supply, neither perform any function also. A 26 years old mother, visited our department for routine anomaly scan. Transabdominal ultrasound examination revealed a well-dened echogenic mass seen just below the left hemidiaphragm which showed vascular supply directly from the aorta. This conrmed our diagnosis of pulmonary sequestration. We further evaluated with Fetal MRI which showed T2 high signal and T1 iso signal mass, suspicion of sequestration and esophageal duplication cyst was considered. The pregnancy was carefully followed by serial scans and a male baby delivered without any complications. Postnatally abdominal ultrasonography performed showed echogenic mass seen below the left diagram which showed feeding artery from the aorta.