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| Year : 2015 | Volume
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| Issue : 2 | Page : 53-56 |
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Congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation of lung in fetus: Report of two cases with brief review of literature
Anuradha G Patil, Shabnam Karangadan, Vatsala Kishore
Department of Pathology, Mahadevappa Rampure Medical College, Gulbarga, Karnataka, India
Correspondence Address:
Anuradha G Patil
Department of Pathology, Mahadevappa Rampure Medical College, Gulbarga - 585 105, Karnataka
India
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DOI: 10.4103/2320-8775.158854
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Congenital cystic adenomatoid malformations (CCAMs), also known as congenital pulmonary airway malformation is a developmental, non-hereditary, hamartomatous abnormality of lung with unknown etiology. It is a rare disease with an incidence of 1 in 25,000 to 1 in 35,000. It is a disease of infancy with most of the cases diagnosed within first 2 years of life. We report autopsy findings of two fetuses with CCAM (Stocker Type I and IV) with brief review of literature. |
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