Lung
Cystic disease / congenital anomalies
Infantile lobar emphysema
Author: Elliot Weisenberg, M.D.
Last author update: 1 August 2011
Last staff update: 10 August 2020
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PubMed search: lobar hyperinflation
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Definition / general | Case reports | Gross images | Microscopic (histologic) description | Microscopic (histologic) imagesCite this page: Weisenberg E. Infantile lobar emphysema. PathologyOutlines.com website. https://www.pathologyoutlines.com/topic/lungnontumorcongenitallobarover.html. Accessed September 29th, 2023.
Definition / general
- Also called congenital lobar emphysema
- Infants or young children
- Abnormal bronchial development resulting in air trapping, perhaps due to hypoplasia of bronchial cartilage; associated with other cardiopulmonary anomalies
- Affects left or right upper lobe or right middle lobe
- May cause severe compression of other pulmonary lobes
- Not emphysema since no tissue destruction
Case reports
- 28 day old baby boy (Indian J Anaesth 2009;53:482)
Gross images
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Congenital lobar hyperinflation
Microscopic (histologic) description
- Massive distention of alveolar spaces, but no tissue destruction
Microscopic (histologic) images
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