A case of young woman with recurrent right pleural effusion

Endomterisois is usually found in women of child-bearing age. A case is presented of massive right-sided pleural effusion caused by endometriosis. The final diagnosis was made by thoracoscopic pleural biopsy. Physicians should be aware of this potentially treatable cause of pleural effusion having e...

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Autores principales: Mehta, Asmita A, Gupta, Amit, Venkitakrishnan, Rajesh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Pictorial CME
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4663879/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26664182
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.168097
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description Endomterisois is usually found in women of child-bearing age. A case is presented of massive right-sided pleural effusion caused by endometriosis. The final diagnosis was made by thoracoscopic pleural biopsy. Physicians should be aware of this potentially treatable cause of pleural effusion having excluded other possibilities such as malignancy and tuberculosis.
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spelling pubmed-46638792015-12-10 A case of young woman with recurrent right pleural effusion Mehta, Asmita A Gupta, Amit Venkitakrishnan, Rajesh Lung India Pictorial CME Endomterisois is usually found in women of child-bearing age. A case is presented of massive right-sided pleural effusion caused by endometriosis. The final diagnosis was made by thoracoscopic pleural biopsy. Physicians should be aware of this potentially treatable cause of pleural effusion having excluded other possibilities such as malignancy and tuberculosis. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4663879/ /pubmed/26664182 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.168097 Text en Copyright: © Lung India http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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