Recurrent chest pain as a rare presentation of extra-pelvic endometriosis.

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Laboratory Medicine & Pathology Department Hamad Medical Corporation Doha Qatar.

Published: July 2021

Periodic chest pain, with bloody pleural effusion should raise the suspicion of pleural endometriosis as a well-known, but a rare condition in clinical practice.

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