Catamenial pleural pain

Keith Horsfield, K Horsfield
The European respiratory journal · 1989 · vol. 2(10) , pp. 1013–1014 · doi:10.1183/09031936.93.02101013 · PMID:2606187 · W2121839672
article OA: bronze CC0 ⤵ 10 in-corpus citations
📄 Open PDF View on OpenAlex View on PubMed View at publisher
⚙ AI-generated summary by claude@2026-06, 2026-06-08 ⓘ

A case report describes recurrent pleural pain associated with menstruation, presumed to be pulmonary endometriosis, which resolved with estrogen cessation.

One-sentence paraphrase of the abstract; not a substitute for reading it. No clinical advice. How this works

Abstract

A case of recurrent pleural pain without pneumothorax, thought to be due to pulmonary endometriosis, is presented. The pain was associated with the menstrual periods, remitted when the patient was sterilised, recurred when she was given oestrogens, and finally disappeared when the oestrogen was stopped. The presentation of pulmonary endometriosis, with pleural pain but no pneumothorax, should be added to those previously described in the literature.

My notes (saved in your browser only)

Condition tags

endometriosis

MeSH descriptors

Endometriosis Lung Neoplasms Menstruation Pain Pleural Diseases Adult Endometriosis Female Humans Lung Neoplasms Pain Pleural Diseases

Citation neighborhood

Papers in the corpus that this work cites (lower rings, blue) and that cite this one (upper rings, green). Dot size scales with the paper's in-corpus citation count — bigger dot = more influential within the endo/adeno field. Click a dot to open that paper. [ expand to 2 hops ] — adds papers reached through this work's immediate citers/citees. Heavier; up to 60 extra dots.

References (13)

Cited by (10)

Source provenance

europepmc
last seen: 2026-06-11T06:19:48.454388+00:00
openalex
last seen: 2026-06-10T17:14:06.276822+00:00
pubmed
last seen: 2026-05-13T22:09:10.744835+00:00
License: CC0 · commercial use OK