Revue des maladies respiratoires

ObjectiveTo report our therapeutic approach toward catamenial hemothorax.Patients and methodsThis retrospective study from January 1994 to November 2018 concerned patients operated under general anesthesia for catamenial hemothorax. A poste…

IntroductionLymphagioleiomyomatosis (LAM) and endometriosis are two diseases that occur in young women. The main thoracic complication of both diseases is pneumothorax.Case reportWe describe the case of a 45-year-old woman who presented wit…

Thoracic endometriosis is a rare disease, which presents in women at a mean age of 35 years, later than for pelvic endometriosis. There are no known predisposing factors for the condition and its pathogenesis is not yet clearly established.…

Thoracic endometriosis has been considered a rare clinical condition but it is probably underestimated in the literature. Various clinical symptoms may occur but the most frequent are catamenial pneumothoraces. Four main clinical conditions…

INTRODUCTION: Catamenial haemoptysis is a rare clinical entity resulting from the presence of ectopic intra pulmonary endometrial tissue, either parenchymatous or endobronchial. The main diagnostic criterion is the periodic character of the…

IntroductionEndometriosis is defined as the abnormal presence of endometrial tissue, including endometrial glands and stroma, outside the uterine cavity. The term "thoracic endometriosis" is classically referred to the respiratory manifesta…

IntroductionNumerous conditions can produce chronic exudative pleural effusions. Pleural endometriosis is a rare cause of unilateral effusion with diffuse pleural thickening.Clinical caseWe report the case of chronic pleural effusion in a t…

We report a case of a 31 year old woman with recurrent hemothorax at the beginning of mens. Pleural biopsy confirmed the diagnosis of pleural endometriosis. Medical treatment with a Gn-RH analogue failed to cure and we realised surgical ple…

The authors report a case of a plasma cell granuloma in a young woman of 19 with a past history of congenital rubella, presenting with repeated small haemoptyses related to a pedunculated endo-bronchial tumour. The diagnosis was only made p…

The thoracic localization of endometriosis may involve the pulmonary pleura and the diaphragm, or the bronchopulmonary parenchyma, according to mechanisms which appear to be quite different. The principal clinical manifestations express the…

Six new cases seen personally, and 72 cases of catamenial pneumothorax found in the literature have had thoracoscopic talcage. We shall discuss several peculiarities of this syndrome: its relative rarity, symptoms linked to periods, the spe…

The authors report two new cases of menstrual pneumothorax. In both cases the lesions of endometriosis seemed to dominate the pathogenesis. After a rapid review of the literature to elucidate the main clinical characteristics of this curiou…