New Delhi, July 15 -- Doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, have successfully performed a rare and technically complex lung surgery on a four-month-old infant born with a congenital lung malformation affecting both lungs, with the child being discharged just two days after the operation.

According to AIIMS, the infant was diagnosed before birth with Congenital Pulmonary Airway Malformation (CPAM), a rare condition in which part of the lung develops abnormally, forming non-functional cyst-like tissue. The condition affected both lungs, making the surgery more challenging than typical cases involving only one lung.

Instead of removing an entire lobe of the lung, the surgical team performed a segmentect...