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Frontal chest radiograph in a 4-month-old infant, showing right thoracic opacity (stars), hypertrophy and mediastinal herniation of the left lung (arrows), and lack of visualization of the left stem bronchus.
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A frontal chest radiograph showed a right white lung with herniation of mediastinal contents in the right hemithorax (Figure 1).
Chest CT scan in a 4-month-old infant showing agenesis of the right lung parenchyma, absence of a right stem bronchus, compensatory hypertrophy of the left lung, which extended to the right hemithorax, causing deviation of the mediastinum and responsible for dextrocardia, and a single left pulmonary artery.
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