Familial Thoracic Endometriosis Syndrome: case report

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.