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View larger version (49K):   A 38-year-old female smoker reported having had intermittent, recurrent right-sided chest pain for several months. Pelvic endometriosis had been diagnosed during laparoscopy for in vitro fertilization 6 years earlier. Six months before presentation, a small, right-sided spontaneous pneumothorax had been diagnosed for which she received no treatment; follow-up chest radiography 2 weeks later revealed no abnormalities. She was admitted because of acute dyspnea, and a recurrent right-sided pneumothorax was diagnosed (Panel A). It was her second day of menstruation, and she remembered that the first episode of pneumothorax had also taken place on the second day of her menstrual cycle. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

 

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