African journal of thoracic and critical care medicine
Afr J Thorac Crit Care Med
· ISSN (e) 2617-0205
· 4 papers in corpus
A spontaneous pneumothorax is a pneumothorax that does not arise from trauma or an iatrogenic cause. Although the traditional classification of either primary or secondary spontaneous pneumothorax based on the absence or presence of overt u…
This issue of the AJTCCM includes a retrospective review by Adeoye et al. [1] on their experience with thoracic endometriosis syndrome, as seen over a 3.5-year period at a teaching hospital in Ilorin, Nigeria.Thoracic endometriosis syndrome…
BACKGROUND: Endometriosis is defined as the presence of endometrial tissue (stroma and functional glands) outside the uterine cavity in women of reproductive age. Ectopic sites are frequently located in the pelvis; extrapelvic sites have be…