LOBECTOMY FOR CONGENITAL CYSTIC DISEASE OF THE LUNG

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Abstract
Congenital cystic disease of the lung was described over 300 years ago by Fontanus and was again noted by Bartholinus in 1687. For the most part, it remained a pathological curiosity until the advent of modern thoracic surgery. In 1925, Koontz 2 reported a case in a child 12 days old and gathered 108 other cases from literature. Although there are reports of over 400 cases in the literature, it is not known how many have been congenital, for many authors have not differentiated the congenital from the acquired type. Few of these patients have undergone surgery, and still fewer subjected to operation have survived. Fischer and co-workers reported a successful result in a 1-month-old infant. Gross successfully treated by surgery a 3-week-old infant, and Burnett and Caswell performed lobectomy on a 15-day-old baby. Potts "recently performed lobectomy in a 5-day-old infant for this condition, and the patient survived. To

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