Familial Thoracic Endometriosis Syndrome: case report

Ogbudu, S. O., Eze, J. N., Echieh, C. P., Nwagboso, C. I., Dien, E. O., Edet, E. E., Okpe, A. E., Etiuma, A. U., Bassey, O. O., Ekanem, E. I., Ogbudu, H. E.
2025 · doi:10.82222/njcd.vol4no1.34 · W7084123179
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This case report describes familial thoracic endometriosis syndrome, a condition involving endometrial tissue in the chest, and notes it has not been previously reported in South-South, Nigeria.

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This paper is a case report describing familial thoracic endometriosis syndrome, a form of extra-genital endometriosis in which functional endometrial tissue occurs in thoracic structures such as the tracheobronchial tree, pleura, and lung, and is associated with catamenial pneumothorax, haemorrhagic pleural effusion, haemoptysis, and pulmonary nodules. The authors frame the condition as inheriting through mechanisms similar to those proposed for genital endometriosis and report that such a case had not previously been described in South-South, Nigeria. A key limitation is that, as a single case report, it provides no broader estimate of prevalence or causality beyond the presented family. This paper is centrally about endometriosis — it reports familial thoracic endometriosis syndrome and associated catamenial thoracic manifestations.

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Background: The presence of functional endometrial tissue in the tracheobronchial tree, pleura, and lung is normally referred to as thoracic ndometriosis (TE) or extra genital endometriosis. The commonest extragenital site of endometriosis is within the thoracic cavity. The ssociation of catamenial pneumothorax, catamenial haemorrhagic pleural effusion (haemothorax), catamenial haemoptysis and pulmonary nodules is referred to as thoracic endometriosis syndrome. The same mechanism of inheritance of genital endometriosis applies to extragenital endometriosis. No such report has been described in South-South, Nigeria.
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Familial Thoracic Endometriosis Syndrome: case report Main Article Content Abstract Background: The presence of functional endometrial tissue in the tracheobronchial tree, pleura, and lung is normally referred to as thoracic ndometriosis (TE) or extra genital endometriosis. The commonest extragenital site of endometriosis is within the thoracic cavity. The ssociation of catamenial pneumothorax, catamenial haemorrhagic pleural effusion (haemothorax), catamenial haemoptysis and pulmonary nodules is referred to as thoracic endometriosis syndrome. The same mechanism of inheritance of genital endometriosis applies to extragenital endometriosis. No such report has been described in South-South, Nigeria. Downloads Article Details Section This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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