Familial Thoracic Endometriosis Syndrome: case report

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Published: 2025-09-19
DOI: https://doi.org/10.82222/njcd.vol4no1.34

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S. O. Ogbudu
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Calabar, Nigeria.
J. N. Eze
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Calabar, Nigeria.
C. P. Echieh
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Calabar, Nigeria.
C. I. Nwagboso
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Calabar, Nigeria.
E. O. Dien
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Calabar, Nigeria.
E. E. Edet
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Calabar, Nigeria
A. E. Okpe
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Calabar, Nigeria
A. U. Etiuma
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Calabar, Nigeria.
O. O. Bassey
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Calabar, Nigeria.
E. I. Ekanem
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Calabar, Nigeria
H. E. Ogbudu
Department of Surgery, University of Calabar, Calabar Cross River State, Nigeria

Abstract

Background: The presence of functional endometrial tissue in the tracheobronchial tree, pleura, and lung is normally referred to as thoracic ndometriosis (TE) or extra genital endometriosis. The commonest extragenital site of endometriosis is within the thoracic cavity. The ssociation of catamenial pneumothorax, catamenial haemorrhagic pleural effusion (haemothorax), catamenial haemoptysis and pulmonary nodules is referred to as thoracic endometriosis syndrome. The same mechanism of inheritance of genital endometriosis applies to extragenital endometriosis. No such report has been described in South-South, Nigeria.

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Vol. 4 No. 1 (2023): November

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S. O. Ogbudu, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Calabar, Nigeria.

Department of Surgery, University of Calabar, Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria 

C. P. Echieh , Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Calabar, Nigeria.

Department of Surgery, University of Calabar, Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria 

A. U. Etiuma , Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Calabar, Nigeria.

Department of Surgery, University of Calabar, Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria 

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Ogbudu, S. O., Eze, J. N., Echieh , C. P., Nwagboso , C. I., Dien, E. O., Edet, E. E., Okpe, A. E., Etiuma , A. U., Bassey , O. O., Ekanem , E. I., & Ogbudu, H. E. (2025). Familial Thoracic Endometriosis Syndrome: case report. Nigerian Journal of Chest Diseases, 4(1), 45-52. https://doi.org/10.82222/njcd.vol4no1.34

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