[Diagnosis and classification of thoracal endometriosis]. / Pro diahnostyku i klasyfikatsiiu torakal'noho endometriozu.

Endometriosis is a grave pathological process that comes to be encountered in young women of the reproductive age, and it is not infrequently that it terminates in disability. Apart from genital organs, other organs may be affected by the disease, including those of the thorax. But in proportion of instances the process escapes early diagnosis. In the author's opinion, the reason for the above-said is absence of classification, in view of which fact a classification is suggested that is supposed to advance diagnosis.

[Tuberculous pleuritis and pregnancy]. / Tuberkul'oznyi plevryt i vahitnist'.

There is an ever-increasing risk of the pregnant women's developing a specific lesion of the pleura as evidenced by high infection rates (80%) among the adult population. In registering women for pregnancy, taking a history of a contact with a TB person is mandatory as is of a 3-year exposure to those illnesses presenting with paraspecific signs that characterize the pregnant women's having had atypical tuberculous pleuritis (subfebrile condition, the act of breathing-related pain in the chest, unmotivated shortness of breath). In all such cases phthisiological advice is to be applied for with writing it down in the pregnant women's card for adequate (and in some cases preventive) measures to be instituted after labor.

[Thoracoscopy in verification of thoracal endometriosis]. / Mistse torakoskopiï pry veryfikatsiï torakal'noho endometriozu.

The authors submit data from the published literature, showing that endometriosis is a grave disease in young women of reproductive age. The incidence of endometriosis tends to be on the increase. At the same time, cases have come to be seen of polyorgan localization of the process, the thoracal one included. The paper contains a presentation of a case of thoracal endometriosis accompanied by spontaneous pneumothorax diagnosed after her having been ill with the disease for ten years. Arguments are submitted in favour of a pleural investigation to be conducted in patients with spontaneous pneumothorax, which reasoning determines further therapeutic policy in such patients. In the authors' opinion, it is thoracotomy that is to be embarked upon, the volume of intervention being determined by revision of organs of the pleural cavity.