Endometriosis is a benign gynecological disorder associated with pelvic pain and infertility, primarily affecting women of reproductive age. Thoracic endometriosis affects the pulmonary parenchyma or pleura. We report the cases of two patients with pleural endometriosis who presented with recurrent pneumothorax. In both cases, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the chest showed right hydropneu...

Casimiro HJ, et al. BMJ Case Rep 2017. doi:10.1136/bcr-2017-221799 Description A 62-year-old woman with history of frontotemporal dementia was admitted to a Psychiatry ward due to severe insomnia. In the morning, after the admission a nasogastric tube was placed to initiate enteral feeding and medication since she was refusing all oral intake. Later that night, she was found unresponsive, dyspn...

Our hospital is located in the Tono region in the southeastern district of Gifu Prefecture in which there are forests and inhabitants who still hunt and eat game meat. Therefore, boar meat increases the risk of contracting paragonimiasis. We treated two patients who were infected by Paragonimus westermani after eating boar meat. They developed hydropneumothorax in association with eosinophilic ...

Boerhaave's syndrome, or spontaneous esophageal rupture, is a rare condition that classically presents with Mackler's triad of vomiting, subcutaneous emphysema, and severe sudden onset of chest pain and requires immediate medical attention. Approximately 90% of the perforations occur at the left lateral aspect of the distal esophagus, causing a left-sided pleural effusion. Less than 10% of pati...

A 43-year-old multiparous woman with a history of pelvic endometriosis and myocardial infarction presented with acute onset of right hemithorax pain and dyspnoea coinciding with dysmenorrhoeic menstruation. A chest CT confirmed the presence of a right hydropneumothorax which was drained. A video-assisted thoracoscopy was unremarkable but at a subsequent menses, an MRI chest demonstrated a lesio...