Nihon Kokyuki Gakkai zasshi = the journal of the Japanese Respiratory Society

In 1982, a 45-year-old woman was hospitalized because of an abnormal lung shadow. The chest film provided evidence of pulmonary nodules. She was asymptomatic and had no labolatory abnormalities. Exploratory excision was performed to further…

A part of catamenial pneumothorax is associated with endometriosis. Several cases were reported where CA125 levels were high in blood or pleural effusion. A case of female pneumothorax, the bleb and diaphragm showed positive for CA125, was …

The chest radiograph = of a 33-year-old man showed a mass shadow in the right hilum. CT scanning film revealed a 3 x 2 cm tumor lying against the right pulmonary artery. Bronchoscopy and pulmonary arteriography showed almost normal findings…

We describe a case of catamenial pneumothorax caused by diaphragmatic endometriosis and histologically confirmed thoracoscopically. The patient was a 33-year-old woman who had had recurrent right chest pain starting on the day preceding eac…

We reported a case of catamenial pneumothorax that was recurrent after surgical treatment. A 43-year-old woman had sudden chest pain and dyspnea during menstruation. Right pneumothorax and pleural effusion were pointed out on chest X-ray fi…

A 47-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital for evaluation of an abnormal shadow in the left hilar region. A CT scan showed a non-enhancing mass between the lingula and left basal bronchus. On the twelfth hospital day, when her menstru…