Successful video-assisted thoracic surgery for pulmonary endometriosis: Report of a case.
Pulmonary endometriosis is a disease in which uterine endometrial cells with stromal components grow in the pulmonary parenchymal tissues or pleura. Surgical resection is considered an effective and radical treatment for pulmonary endometriosis to avoid the adverse effects of long-term hormone therapy in young women of childbearing years with a localized abnormal lesion. We report a case of pulmonary endometriosis with catamenial hemoptysis, an uncommon result of this disease, which was diagnosed histologically and treated successfully by video-assisted thoracic surgery.
Haruki
Tomohiro
T
Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Tottori University Hospital, 36-1 Nishi-machi, Yonago, Tottori, 683-8504, Japan.
Fujioka
Shinji
S
Adachi
Yoshin
Y
Miwa
Ken
K
Taniguchi
Yuji
Y
Nakamura
Hiroshige
H
D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004715:Endometriosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D011013:Pneumonectomy / Q000379:methods*; D020775:Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed