The American review of respiratory disease
Am Rev Respir Dis
· ISSN (print) 0003-0805
· 2 papers in corpus
A 39-year-old woman had a 7-yr history of recurrent right-sided pneumothoraces. These occurred within 1 to 2 days before or after the beginning of the menstrual cycle. The patient recalled often having developed the right-sided pleuritic pa…
A patient with catamenial pneumothorax and pelvic endometriosis underwent pleuroscopic examination with the flexible bronchoscope. For the first time, using this technique, diaphragmatic defects were observed, and the passage of air through…