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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2005;129:1199
© 2005 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letters to the Editor

Catamenial pneumothorax: Some commentaries

Marco Alifano, MD, Pierre Magdeleinat, MD, Jean François Regnard, MD

Unité de Chirurgie Thoracique Hotel-Dieu Hospital 1, Place du Parvis Notre-Dame Paris 75004, France

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To the Editor:

We read with interest the article by Korom and associates1 reporting 3 new cases of catamenial pneumothorax and with an excellent review of the literature. The reports outline the frequent lack of recognition of diaphragmatic endometriosis as the causative factor of catamenial pneumothorax, even in patients submitted to surgical exploration with video-assisted thoracoscopy. In a previous prospective study on catamenial pneumothorax,2 we pointed out that exploration of the whole thoracic cavity should be mandatory in these patients. We suggested that patients should be positioned in the . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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