What is bronchopulmonary sequestration?

Also known as: BPS, pulmonary sequestration, accessory lung.

When a fetus develops a cystic piece of nonfunctioning abnormal lung tissue either within a lung (intralobar sequestration) or next to it (extralobar- more common in boys) that is not connected to the body’s airways, its known as bronchopulmonary sequestration.

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Reviewed by: Jack Wolfsdorf, MD, FAAP

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