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Bronchopulmonary Sequestration

Medical Definition:	A developmental anomaly in which a mass of nonfunctioning lung tissue lacks normal connection with the tracheobroncheal tree and receives an anomalous blood supply originating from the descending thoracic or abdominal aorta. The mass may be extralobar, i.e., completely separated from normally connected lung, or intralobar, i.e., partly surrounded by normal lung.
Guide Notes:	a lung abnorm; do not use /congen & do not coord with INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; DF: PULM SEQUESTRATION

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