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Thoracic endometriosis: clinicopathologic updates and issues about 18 cases from a tertiary referring center.
Annals of diagnostic pathology - 1 Oct 2015
Ghigna Maria-Rosa, Mercier Olaf, Mussot Sacha, Fabre Dominique, Fadel Elie, Dorfmuller Peter, de Montpreville Vincent Thomas
Abstract excerpt
Thoracic endometriosis is defined as the ectopic presence of endometrial glands and stroma in lung or pleura and constitutes an uncommon cause of spontaneous pneumothorax in nonsmoker women in childbearing age. From 2000 to 2014, 18 (7.3%) women of 246 had a histologically proven endometriosis-related pneumothorax. The examination of thoracic samples was performed on formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded hematoxylin...
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