Kyobu geka. The Japanese journal of thoracic surgery

Here, we report a case of catamenial pneumothorax that occurred during endometriosis treatment. A 46-year-old woman presented with a history of right pneumothorax. At 43 years of age, the patient was diagnosed with endometriosis and progest…

Hepatic heria in adult without history of trauma or surgery is rare, and is sometimes operated under the diagnosis of lung or diaphragmatic tumor. Here, we report a case of hepatic hernia which had been preoperatively suspected of pleural t…

A 52-year-old woman had giant adenomyosis uteri treated by pseudo-menopause therapy. However, she did not take oral anticoagulant for deep vein thrombosis prevention because of metrorrhagia. She developed pulmonary thromboembolism, and was …

We retrospectively assessed the clinical and pathological features of 14 patients with thoracic endometriosis who were treated at our hospital from 2007 to 2017. Thirteen patients presented pneumothorax and 1 patient presented bloody sputum…

Catamenial pneumothorax (CP) is one of the clinical manifestations of endometriosis, therefore the systemic hormonal therapy is indispensable and should be the 1st choice for CP treatment. However, it is refractory and repeats a recurrence,…

We reported a case of catamenial pneumothorax caused by diaphragmatic endometriosis that was histologically confirmed. A 49-year-old female who had recurrent chest pain and cough appearing on the day preceding each menstruation from 5 years…

The patient was a 36-year-old woman. She had previously undergone surgery for hysteromyoma and endometriosis. At 8 week of pregnancy, the fetus's heart stopped beating, and the woman underwent abortion. On the same day, she began experienci…

A 40-year-old female had right-sided pneumothorax. She was treated with a chest tube. On the 2nd day, her menstruation started. Because of a persistent air leak, she underwent a thoracoscopic operation on the 15th day. During the operation,…

A 39-year-old woman was referred to our hospital because of pneumothorax related to menstruation. Chest X-ray showed right pneumothorax. Right thoracoscopy revealed 3 fenestrations on the diaphragm. Partial resection of the diaphragm includ…

A 47-year-old woman with 4 episodes of right pneumothorax related to onset of menstruation was reported. A month ago, she was undergone breast conserving resection for breast cancer. She had recurrent right pneumothorax a month later and op…

A 31-year-old female with 2 episodes of right pneumothorax related to onset of menstruation was reported. Thoracoscopy revealed the presence of some cystic lesions in the diaphragm. Partial resection of the diaphragm including the lesions w…

We report 3 cases of catamenial pneumothorax, with review of the literatures. Case 1: A 38-year-old female had recurrent right-sided pneumothorax in February 2001. Videothoracoscopic visualization showed multiple small fenestrations in cent…

A 27-year-old female was complained repeated right pneumothorax. Each episode was obviously related to the onset of menstruation, suggesting catamenial pneumothorax. Thoracoscope revealed the presence of several fistulas in the central tend…

A 16-year-old woman presented with chest pain on 2 days before the onset of menstruation and was referred to our hospital because of a pneumothorax. She was diagnosed as spontaneous penumothorax and surgical treatment was performed. Thoraco…

A 30-year-old female had twice experienced right pneumothorax within 2 months that was related to the onset of menstruation, suggesting catamenial pneumothorax. Right thoracoscopy revealed the presence of "blue berry spots" and pinhole at t…

We report here a case in which for hemoptysis during menstruation (catamenial hemoptysis) right middle lobectomy was performed thoracoscopically under a preoperative diagnosis of pulmonary endometriosis with a successful outcome. The patien…

A 40-year old woman had experienced repeated spontaneous pneumothorax on the right side at the beginning of each menstrual period for one year. The level of serum CA125 was high at 60 ng/ml. Right thoracotomy revealed the presence of multip…

A case of catamenial pneumothorax associated with diaphragmatic endometriosis was reported. A 43-year-old woman had 4 times-recurrent pneumothorax on right side for recent 5 months. Each onset was related to the beginning of menses. Right t…

A case of catamenial pneumothorax with diaphragmatic and pulmonary endometriosis is presented. A 43-year-old, married woman had three times of recurrent right pneumothorax during the period from January to July on 1990. Each episode was app…

Three cases of catamenial pneumothorax were presented. A 42-year-old woman with intrapelvic endometriosis had recurrent right-sided pneumothorax with menstruation more than six times. At the operation only a bleb was noted at the apex of th…