We report here the unusual presentation of a 35-year-old nulliparous Nigerian teacher who presented with a 5year history of primary infertility, painful menses and cyclical umbilical bleeding. Evaluation revealed a clinically stable woman with a midline, infra-umbilical surgical abdominal scar near the site of bleeding, a large right hemothorax on Chest X-ray, kissing ovaries on pelvic scan and...

TOPIC: Disorders of the Pleura TYPE: Medical Student/Resident Case Reports INTRODUCTION: Hemothorax is most commonly caused by trauma, but can also result from iatrogenic injury, rupture pleural adhesions, neoplasm, complication anticoagulation, aneurysmal rupture, pulmonary vascular malformations, endometriosis, and exostoses. A recurrent right-sided hemothorax, with a temporal relation to men...