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Thoracic endometriosis with a long delay in diagnosis.
- Source :
-
Romanian journal of morphology and embryology = Revue roumaine de morphologie et embryologie [Rom J Morphol Embryol] 2015; Vol. 56 (1), pp. 295-300. - Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- This paper describes a case of thoracic endometriosis in 36-year-old woman with a long delay in diagnosis. At the admission in the hospital, the patient had a medical history of persistent dysmenorrhea since the age of 13, infertility and an episode of total right pneumothorax two months ago successfully resolved by minimum pleurotomy of the right hemitorax. She came with moderate pain on right hemithorax and dyspnea, which occurred on the first day of menstruation but she did not have any other respiratory symptoms such as hemoptysis, cough. Radiological imaging (chest radiography and computer tomography) at the time of admission confirmed recurrence of the right pneumothorax. She underwent surgical treatment of the right pneumothorax using a single-port video-assisted approach. Intraoperative macroscopic lesions were found catamenial pneumothorax characteristic diagnosis and biopsy material taken (parietal pleura) for histopathology. Immuno-histochemical tests confirmed the diagnosis of thoracic endometriosis. The gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogue was received by the patient early after surgery and there was no clinical or radiological recurrence at a four months follow-up.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Biopsy
Delayed Diagnosis
Diaphragm pathology
Endometriosis complications
Endometriosis surgery
Female
Humans
Immunohistochemistry
Infertility, Female complications
Radiography, Thoracic
Thorax pathology
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Treatment Outcome
Video-Assisted Surgery
Endometriosis diagnosis
Pneumothorax diagnosis
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 2066-8279
- Volume :
- 56
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Romanian journal of morphology and embryology = Revue roumaine de morphologie et embryologie
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 25826520