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Catamenial Bernard-Horner's syndrome related to thoracic endometriosis.

Mercadante E, Giovannini C, Castaldi F, Passaro U, Dell'Avanzato R, Abruzzese E, Carlini M

Department of General Thoracic and Abdominal Surgery, S. Eugenio Hospital, Rome, Italy. e.mercadante@tiscali.it

We describe the case of a young woman with a recurrent right Bernard-Horner's syndrome associated with the onset of intermittent supraclavicular mass. Surgical excision of the mass revealed the endometrial pattern of the tumor and the close relationship between Bernard-Horner's syndrome and thoracic endometriosis. No other case of this syndrome has been reported in the literature.

Published 24 August 2006 in Ann Thorac Surg, 82(3): e24-5.
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