Koichiro Tatsumi

ORCID: 0000-0001-9484-7912 · 4 papers in corpus
case-report 2021
A case of pulmonary arterial hypertension with V/Q SPECT/CT that showed localized uptake of 99mTc just below the pleura and a unique distribution
Respirology case reports ·doi:10.1002/rcr2.847

Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a life-threatening disorder, which originates from various aetiologies. Ventilation-perfusion (V/Q) scanning is commonly used to evaluate the differential diagnosis of PH. Meanwhile, previous studies have show…

case-report 2017
Pulmonary Endometriosis which Probably Occurred through Hematogenous Metastasis after Artificial Abortion
Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) ·doi:10.2169/internalmedicine.56.8265

Pulmonary endometriosis (PEM) is a rare disease characterized by the proliferation of ectopic endometrial tissue in the lungs, which presents as catamenial hemoptysis. A 20-year-old-woman was admitted for repeated hemoptysis. Chest CT revea…

observational 2015
Clinical characteristics of catamenial and non-catamenial thoracic endometriosis-related pneumothorax
Respirology (Carlton, Vic.) ·doi:10.1111/resp.12610

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: A major pathogenic factor for catamenial pneumothorax is thoracic endometriosis. However, thoracic endometriosis-related pneumothorax (TERP) can develop as either catamenial or non-catamenial pneumothorax (CP). The…

observational 2014
Thoracic endometriosis-related pneumothorax distinguished from primary spontaneous pneumothorax in females
Lung ·doi:10.1007/s00408-014-9598-1

PURPOSE: Thoracic endometriosis-related pneumothorax (TERP) is a secondary condition specific for females, but in a clinical setting, TERP often is difficult to distinguish from primary spontaneous pneumothorax (PSP) based on a relationship…