Prolapse of liver tissue into the pleural cavity – a rare symptom of pneumothorax associated with endometriosis
This case report describes a woman with endometriosis-associated right pneumothorax and multiple liver herniations into the pleural cavity, confirmed by CT and diaphragm biopsy.
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The paper describes a single case of endometriosis-associated right-sided catamenial pneumothorax in a 33-year-old woman with a history of bilateral tubal resection, in whom multislice CT showed air in the right pleural cavity above the diaphragm and multiple soft-tissue foci that were initially interpreted as possible endometriotic implants. Diagnostic videothoracoscopy revealed diaphragmatic adhesions with multiple 2–10 mm full-thickness defects of the tendinous center through which liver tissue prolapsed into the pleural space; endometriosis was supported by estrogen receptor positivity on immunohistochemistry, and the authors performed diaphragmatic defect resection plus pleurodesis via full costal pleurectomy. The main limitation is that this is a single-patient report, and MRI was not performed because the treatment plan relied on invasive diagnostic assessment. This paper is centrally about endometriosis — it reports a rare symptom (hepatic tissue prolapse) of endometriosis-associated catamenial pneumothorax and details the operative findings and estrogen receptor–positive diaphragmatic extragenital endometriosis.
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