Catamenial Pneumothorax
This case report describes a 46-year-old woman with recurrent right-sided pneumothorax associated with menstruation, diagnosed as catamenial pneumothorax with diaphragmatic blueberry spots.
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This case report describes a 46-year-old woman with recurrent right-sided pleuritic chest pain and dyspnea occurring within 48 hours of menstruation onset, who presented with a collapsed right lung on radiograph. Laboratory testing showed elevated cancer antigen-125, and thoracoscopy identified multiple diaphragmatic “blueberry spots” on the right pleurodiaphragmatic surface; the authors diagnosed catamenial pneumothorax, a manifestation of thoracic endometriosis. She underwent video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery and hormonal therapy with danazol, with no evidence of recurrence reported after 5 years, and the report includes no additional cohort-level methods or explicit statistical limitations beyond being a single-patient account. This paper is centrally about endometriosis — it presents catamenial pneumothorax with thoracoscopic “blueberry spots” consistent with thoracic endometriosis.
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- Catamenial Pneumothorax 2003
- Thoracic Endometriosis Syndrome: Case Report and Review of the Literature 2014
- Videothoracoscopic Repair of Diaphragm and Pleurectomy/Abrasion in Patients With Catamenial Pneumothorax 2013
- Catamenial Pneumothorax 2005
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