대한흉부영상의학회 Korean Society of Thoracic Radiology

Discussion

Diagnosis With Brief Discussion

Imaging Findings

Initial chest radiograph (9 June 1998) shows subtle ground glass opacity in left middle lung zone. HRCT scan (17 June 1998), performed 8 days after initial chest radiograph, shows poorly defined lobular ground glass density in the LLL superior segment, but there is no evidence of bronchiectasis or mass. One month later from chest PA 1, hemoptysis was relapsed. Chest radiograph (8 July 1998) and HRCT (17 May 1998) show similar findings as those of previous attack. In this time, ground glass opacity is denser than previous HRCT and there is another focus of ground glass opacity in the periphery of RLL anterior basal segment.

Reviewy

Bronchopulmonary endometriosis is a disorder of parous women 30 to 50 years of age. There is often a clinical history of several spontaneous deliveries or uterine surgery, and the majority of patients do not have pelvic endometriosis. Generally, postmenopausal patients have no symptom while younger ones have had recurrent hemoptysis at the time of menstruations (catamenial hemoptysis) or 1-3 day before and after. "Catamenial" means monthly in Greek. There is usually a single focus of endometrial tissue in the lung parenchyma and occasionally in an airway, together with a variable amount of parenchymal hemorrhage.

Reference

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2. Van Schuk PE, Vercauteren SR et al: Catamenial pneumothorax caused by thoracic endometriosis, Ann Thorac Surg, Aug 1996, 62(2) P585-586
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4. Cassing PC, Hauser M, Kacl G, et al: Catamenial hemoptysis. Diagnosis with MRI, Chest, May 1997, 111(5) p1447-50

Keywords

Lung, Non-infectious inflammation, Others,