Beste Özsezen, Dilber Ademhan Tural, Meral Üner, H Nursun Özcan, Elnur Nurullayev, Nagehan Emiralioğlu, Tutku Soyer, Diclehan Orhan, Ebru Yalçın, Deniz Doğru, Uğur Özçelik, Nural Kiper
BACKGROUND: Placental transmogrification of the lung (PTL) is a clinical spectrum varying from asymptomatic to severe pulmonary impairment; such as recurrent pneumothorax, bronchopneumonia, respiratory distress syndrome and chronic obstructive airway disease. PTL usually presents as a bullous lesion, and rarely can appear in nodule or cyst formation on chest imaging. PTL with giant bullous emphysema has a male preference, is more commonly unilateral and mostly affects one lobe, but can rarely involve more than one lobe...
2022: Turkish Journal of Pediatrics