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Bronchopulmonary Sequestration

"Bronchopulmonary Sequestration" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Bronchopulmonary Sequestration" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Bronchopulmonary Sequestration" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 26 publications over 18 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2006
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.