B. Simon Slasky

Recurring spontaneous pneumothorax in women, concurrent with the onset of menstruation, was first described in 1958. It was later called “catamenial pneumothorax.” Since 1958, 59 such cases have been reported in the medical literature in En…

The diagnosis of catamenial pneumothorax should be suspected whenever a women in the third or fourth decade of life has recurrent right-sided chest pain temporally associated with menstruation. This entity was first described in 1958 and si…