Congenital Pulmonary Lymphangiectasis

An analysis of the literature reveals scanty data on congenital pulmonary lymphangiectasis It would therefore appear to be a comparatively rare condition, yet an investigation of just over 451 consecutive necropsies on stillbirths and neonates, carried out in the Portsmouth area, revealed five cases. Reports of three of these have already been published (Laurence, 1955); the other two are Cases 4 and 5 of the present communication. Case 6 was examined at The Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, Cases 7-9 were referred from Birmingham, and Case 10 from Toronto. Additional examples have been reported by It therefore appears that the condition is not rare, but unrecognized, especially in its microscopic form.