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The Fetus and the Neonatal Infant II

An 18-month-old toddler, his weight 12.5kg, with normal development admitted for recurrent lobar infiltration of right lower lobe, chest X-ray shows elevated right dome of diaphragm and paradoxical movement during fluoroscopy. Of the following, the MOST likely cause of recurrent lobar infiltration is

ExplanationIn this scenario the well grown child with normal development and the recurrent infection in the same lobe should rise the possibility of associated lobe sequestration as most of the eventrations is asymptomatic and need no treatment.