%0 Journal Article
%T Vanishing Lung
%A Mohamed Alhaj Moustafa
%J Open Journal of Thoracic Surgery
%P 43-50
%@ 2164-3067
%D 2022
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/ojts.2022.123005
%X <strong>Background:</strong><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> Vanishing lung is a rare syndrome</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">.</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> It mainly affects young males who are smokers, it considered an advanced
stage of bullous disease, where the entire lobe or lung paranchym is replaced
by bullae, it appears radiologically as</span><span style=\"font-family:;\" \"=\"\"> </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">a
hyperlucency due to air trapping and destruction of</span><span style=\"font-family:;\" \"=\"\"> </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">interstitial
tissue and vascularity in alveolar wall</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">กฏ</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">s.
Misdiagnosed usually as pneumothorax so must be differentiated from other causes
of Hyperlucency lung syndrom. Hereby a case of vanishing lung diagnosed</span><span style=\"font-family:;\" \"=\"\"> </span><span style=\"font-family:;\" \"=\"\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">primarily as a post TB lung destruction. </span><b><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">Case Report:</span></b><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> A sixteenth</span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">-</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">year</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">-</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">old virgin female patient, with</span><span style=\"font-family:;\" \"=\"\"> </span><span style=\"font-family:;\" \"=\"\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">treated for TB for six months without radilogical improvement. CXR and CT
scan revealed diffuse left lung hyperlucency, TB work up (sputum exam, washing
by bronchoscopy) appears no active disease. Left pneumenctomy had done, grossly
there are no lung pranchyma and microscopically no signs of TB in the specimen.
The findings are consistent with Vanishing lung. </span><b><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">Conclusions: </span></b><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">An
understanding of the broad differential diagnosis of pulmonary hyperlucency is
necessary to determine the underlying cause and provide appropriate patient
care.</span></span>
%K Vanishing Lung
%K Bullae
%K Post TB Lung Destruction
%K Lung Hyperlucency
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=119684