Two Young Women with Left-sided Pneumothorax Due to Thoracic Endometriosis

Pneumothorax associated with thoracic endometriosis (TE) generally occurs in women around 30 years old and it usually affects the right pleural cavity. We herein report two cases of TE associated with left-sided pneumothorax in young women. The prevalence of TE in younger patients may be underestima...

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Autores principales: Yukumi, Shungo, Suzuki, Hideaki, Morimoto, Masamitsu, Shigematsu, Hisayuki, Okazaki, Mikio, Abe, Masahiro, Kitazawa, Sohei, Nakamura, Kenji, Sano, Yoshifumi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5216149/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27904115
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Sumario:Pneumothorax associated with thoracic endometriosis (TE) generally occurs in women around 30 years old and it usually affects the right pleural cavity. We herein report two cases of TE associated with left-sided pneumothorax in young women. The prevalence of TE in younger patients may be underestimated if these cases are treated as spontaneous pneumothorax. Pneumothorax occurring in younger patients has not been reported to show laterality. TE-related or catamenial pneumothorax in young women must therefore represent a different clinical entity from the condition seen in older patients.

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