Pulmonary endometriosis causing haemoptysis. Report of a case treated with lobectomy.
A 24-year-old woman with catamenial haemoptysis was treated with the antioestrogenic drug danazol for suspected pulmonary endometriosis. The haemoptysis then ceased, but rapidly recurred when the patient discontinued the medication 3 months later because of severe side effects. Lobectomy was performed, and the diagnosis histologically confirmed, 14 months after the onset of symptoms. Thereafter the patient was free from haemoptysis.
Kristianen
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Department of Thoracic Surgery, Ullevål Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
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D000328:Adult; D004715:Endometriosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006469:Hemoptysis / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D011013:Pneumonectomy