PEDIATRICS Vol. 65 No. 1 January 1980, pp. 89-93
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Acquired Pulmonary Artery Aneurysm in an Infant

p. Viart 1, C. Cattelain 1, and A. Gallez 1

1 Paediatric Cardiac Unit, Department of Paediatrics, Hospital Universitaire Saint-Pierre, and "War Memorial" Children's Hospital, Brussels

An aneurysm of the left pulmonary artery developed in an infant during a staphylococcal generalized infection. The successful surgical treatment required a left pneumonectomy. In this report the causes of that rare lesion and the prognosis of pneumonectomy in infancy are reviewed.

Submitted on October 23, 1978
Accepted on May 29, 1979