ATS
HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced]


     

This Article
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Right arrow Citation Map
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Personal Folders
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow Author home page(s):
Jean-François Regnard
Right arrow Permission Requests
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Morcos, M.
Right arrow Articles by Regnard, J.-F.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Morcos, M.
Right arrow Articles by Regnard, J.-F.
Related Collections
Right arrow Lung - other

Ann Thorac Surg 2006;82:726-729
© 2006 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Case report

Life-Threatening Endometriosis-Related Hemopneumothorax

Mohib Morcos, MDa, Marco Alifano, MDb,*, Anne Gompel, MDc, Jean-François Regnard, MDa,b,c

a Service d'Anatomie et de Cytologie Pathologiques, Paris, France
b Unité de Chirurgie Thoracique, Paris, France
c Unité de Gynécologie Médicale, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Hôtel-Dieu, Paris, France

Accepted for publication October 6, 2005.

* Address correspondence to Dr Alifano, Unité de Chirurgie Thoracique, Hôtel-Dieu 1, Place du Parvis Notre Dame, Paris, 75181 Cedex 04 France. (Email: marcoalifano{at}yahoo.com).

Catamenial pneumothorax is a relatively rare condition, generally of mild to moderate severity. We report the case of a 29-year-old woman who experienced an episode of life threatening right-sided hemopneumothorax in association with menses. She had already been operated on for recurrent pneumothorax. Treatment of the current episode included urgent tube thoracostomy and iterative thoracotomy, together with lung wedge resection, parietal pleurectomy, and partial diaphragmatic excision. Pathologic examination revealed endometrial implants massively involving the diaphragm, the pleura, and the lung parenchyma. The present report shows that endometriosis-related pneumothorax may be extremely severe. The multiple localizations of endometrial implants in this case may provide a support to the different pathogenic theories of endometriosis-related pneumothorax.




This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med.Home page
M. Alifano, C. Jablonski, H. Kadiri, P. Falcoz, A. Gompel, S. Camilleri-Broet, and J.-F. Regnard
Catamenial and Noncatamenial, Endometriosis-related or Nonendometriosis-related Pneumothorax Referred for Surgery
Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med., November 15, 2007; 176(10): 1048 - 1053.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]


HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
ANN THORAC SURG ASIAN CARDIOVASC THORAC ANN EUR J CARDIOTHORAC SURG
J THORAC CARDIOVASC SURG ICVTS ALL CTSNet JOURNALS
Copyright © 2006 by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons.