[Pulmonary sequestration]

In a group of 11 patients with pulmonary sequestration (7 men and 4 women) nine times lower lobectomy was performed and twice segmental resection of the basal segments of the lower lobe. Three times severe haemorrhage from the atherosclerotic degeneratively altered artery supplying the pulmonary sequester was recorded. None of the patients died. No relapse was observed. An essential part of the preoperative examination is angiography of the lungs which reveals reliably an atypical course of the artery for the pulmonary sequester.