Maldevelopment of intrapulmonary bronchial cartilage in congenital diaphragmatic hernia.

So TandoKohei SakaiShohei TakayamaKenji FukunagaMayumi HigashiShigehisa FuminoShigeyoshi AoiTaizo FurukawaTatsuro TajiriHiroshi Ogi Kyoko Itoh

Published in: Pediatric pulmonology (2020)

These opposite directional cartilage abnormalities around the distal and more proximal bronchi support our hypothesis that abnormal development of bronchial cartilage might play an important role in the hypoplastic lung in CDH.

Keyphrases

extracellular matrix
minimally invasive