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Chest x-ray showing a right hemithorax opacification and left lung vicariance. Note the rightward deviation of the mediastinal structures.
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The working diagnosis was bacterial pneumonia (Figure 1).
A - Front view of the thoracic organs. Note a single pulmonary artery perfusing the left lung and lack of the right lung. B - Posterior view characterized by the complete absence of the right main bronchus and lung.
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No other cardiac or systemic malformations (Figure 2) were found.
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- Non-bifurcate trunk of the pulmonary artery. B - Note at the tip of the forceps the obliterated ductus arteriosus.
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Photomicrography of the lung. A - Interstitial inflammatory infiltration and alveolar edema (H&E, 400X). B - The presence of numerous macrophages and edema in the alveolar spaces (Masson's Trichrome, 400X).
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