Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases  1999;47(3):389-393

doi:10.4046/trd.1999.47.3.389

Pulmonary Endometriosis.

Ki Joong KIM 1 ; Yoon Hyung CHO ; Byeong Kee CHOI ; Eui Young CHOI ; Yoon Su CHANG ; Hyung Jung KIM ; Chul Min AHN ; Sang Ho CHO ; Jin A RHU

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Keywords

Pulmonary endometriosis; Histopathologic confirmation

Country

Republic of Korea

Language

Korean

Abstract

Endometriosis is defined as an extrauterine growth of endometrial tissue and it is primarily limited in the pelvis but it can also occur in the pleural cavity as well as pulmonary parenchyme. The diagnosis of pulmonary endometriosis is usually based on the clinical history of recurrent hemoptysis in association with menstrual cycle and by histopathologic confirmation of endometrial tissue in the lung parenchyme. Pulmonary endometriosis was first reported by Lattes in 1956, and dozens of cases have been reported so far. We experienced a case of 25 year old single woman with a history of hemoptysis in association with her menstruation. The bleeding focus was localized with chest CT scan and repeated fibrooptic bronchoscopy and basal segmentectomy of the right lower lobe was performed. The resected specimen shows endometrial stroma and glands of early proliferative phase with respiratory epithelium on the laterobasal bronchus. Her postoperative course was uneventful with no recurrence of hemoptysis during 6 months of follow-up in the outpatient clinic.