Comments | - Diffuse malformation affecting entire lung
- Lethal since lungs do not aerate at birth
| - Single lobe involved in 95% of cases
- Rarely bilateral
- Mediastinal shift and respiratory distress at birth can occur
- Risk of bronchioloalveolar carcinoma
| - Usually one lobe involved
- Associated malformations in 60% of cases, which may have worse prognosis than lung abnormality
| - Entire lobe or several lobes affected
- Severe respiratory distress at birth
| - Usually one lobe involved
- Respiratory distress at birth
- Risk of pleuropulmonary blastoma
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