Chest

Subsolid nodules are common on chest CT imaging and may be either benign or malignant. Their varied features and broad differential diagnoses present management challenges. Although subsolid nodules often represent lung adenocarcinomas, oth…

BACKGROUND: The occurrence of catamenial pneumothorax (CP) is rare, and the awareness of this diagnosis among physicians is insufficient. CP is highly correlated with pelvic endometriosis and remains the most common form of thoracic endomet…

A 34-year-old woman presented with her third episode of acute-onset right-sided chest pain and dyspnea. She had two prior similar occurrences of right-sided sharp, pleuritic chest pain with radiation to the back and dyspnea. Chest radiograp…

BackgroundA significant percentage of pneumothorax in women is due to thoracic endometriosis. Pathophysiologic mechanisms continue to be debated, and pathologic aspects are poorly known.MethodsClinical and pathologic records of all consecut…

ObjectivesTo evaluate the incidence of catamenial pneumothorax (CP) among women who have been referred for the surgical treatment of spontaneous pneumothorax (SP) and to study its pathogenic mechanisms.DesignA prospective study of women of …

Catamenial hemoptysis is a rare condition that is associated with the presence of intrapulmonary or endobronchial endometrial tissue. Diagnosis of and therapy for this condition are still a matter of debate. We describe a case of endobronch…

Catamenial hemoptysis is a rare condition, and only 36 cases have been reported since the first published case. We describe a woman with catamenial hemoptysis recurring over 8 years. The lesion was diagnosed using chest CT scan during mense…

OBJECTIVES: To analyze the clinical data of four patients with a diagnosis of tracheobronchial endometriosis, and to reappraise the diagnostic value of bronchoscopy and bronchial brush cytology in these patients. METHODS: We conducted a re…

We present a case of endobronchial endometriosis with catamenial hemoptysis. The lesion was diagnosed as endobronchial endometriosis using helical CT, and the patient underwent a subsegmentectomy of the upper part of the lateral basal segme…

Thoracic endometriosis is a rare disorder. We report a case of a 26-year-old woman with a 4-year history of catamenial hemoptysis due to thoracic endometriosis which was diagnosed by MRI and treated successfully by means of video-assisted t…

This is a report of an unusual patient who had four of the five manifestations of thoracic endometriosis, including right pneumothorax, left hemothorax, chest pain, and hemoptysis. This patient shows that recurrence of symptoms can occur wh…

We report a case of recurring catamenial pneumothorax with concurrent pelvic endometriosis. Thoracoscopy revealed a blue-like lesion on top of the dome of the right hemidiaphragm. Microscopic examination of biopsy specimens showed endometri…

Pulmonary endometriosis is the likely cause in patients with hemoptysis during menses. While we describe two cases of catamenial hemoptysis, which were localized with chest CT scanning, angiograms revealed normal appearance. We suggest that…

The effect of dipyridamole (DP) on subendocardial (ENDO) and subepicardial (EPI) blood flow in stenosed and normal regions was determined with radioactive microspheres before and after intravenous infusion of 0.08 mg/kg.min-1 of DP in two g…

A patient with known pelvic endometriosis suffered from recurrent episodes of retrosternal pain in the chest at the time of menstruation. Evaluation during an episode revealed subcutaneous emphysema of the neck and a pneumomediastinum witho…

Bronchopulmonary endometriosis is a rare cause of hemoptysis. We describe a woman with catamenial hemoptysis which was localized with chest CAT scanning and treated successfully with danazol. The proposed pathogenesis and manifestations of …

Two sisters had documented pelvic endometriosis and catamenial pneumothoraxes. Both were typical of the 54 reported cases of catamenial pneumothorax in that pneumothoraxes were always on the right and occurred only at menses with onset in t…

Five patients with catamenial pneumothorax are reported, four of whom had proven diaphragmatic defects. Two had microscopic diaphragmatic endometrial implants in the area of the defects. No specimen was obtained in two others. A fifth patie…