Current Thoracic Surgery
2021 , Vol 6 , Issue 3
Catamenial pneumothorax with liver herniation
1Department of Thoracic Surgery University, Ankara University, School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey
DOI :
10.26663/cts.2021.0024
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Catamenial pneumothorax (CP) is a special type of pneumothorax occurring in women of reproductive
age related with the menstrual cycles. In most cases patients are misdiagnosed as primary spontaneous
pneumothorax and are admitted to the hospital with recurrences. CP is mostly associated with
thoracic endometriosis. Characteristic lesions of the disease include diaphragmatic perforations and
also diaphragmatic or pleural spots or nodules in addition to bullae or blebs. There are a few cases
in the literature with partial liver herniation from diaphragmatic defects in patients with catamenial
pneumothorax. In this study, we present a 45-year-old female patient with the diagnosis of catamenial
pneumothorax and herniation of liver from diaphragmatic defects.
Keywords :
catamenial pneumothorax, thoracic endometriosis, diaphragmatic defects, liver herniation, video assisted thoracoscopic surgery