Medical image of the week: bronchopulmonary sequestration

No abstract available. Article truncated at 150 words. A 49-year-old woman was incidentally found to have a lung mass on a pre-operative chest x-ray done prior to an elective cholecystectomy (Figure 1). Chest computed tomography, ordered to further characterize this mass revealed a left lower lobe lobulated, cystic opacity with a feeding artery from the aorta, consistent with bronchopulmonary sequestration (BPS) (Figure 2). Given that she has not had any complications of BPS we elected to manage her conservatively with observation. BPS is a rare congenital malformation of the lower airways characterized by abnormal lung tissue that does not communicate with the tracheobronchial tree and receives its blood supply from the systemic circulation (1). Our patient’s BPS was intralobar in location, occurring within a normal lobe but lacking its own visceral pleura. The posterior basal left lower lobe is the most common intralobar location. Among cases that escape clinical detection in infancy, BPS comes to light in childhood