• Internal medicine · Jun 2021

    Two Cases of Endometriosis in the Cecum Detected by Contrast-enhanced Computed Tomography with Air/Carbon Dioxide Insufflation.

    • Masaya Iwamuro, Takehiro Tanaka, Yuusaku Sugihara, Keita Harada, Sakiko Hiraoka, Yoshitaka Kondo, and Hiroyuki Okada.
    • Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Japan.
    • Intern. Med. 2021 Jun 1; 60 (11): 1697-1701.

    AbstractWe herein report two patients with endometriosis in the cecum. Both patients presented with a protruding, subepithelial tumor on colonoscopy and were diagnosed with cecal endometriosis after surgical resection. It is notable that the cecal lesions were not initially identified on computed tomography (CT), while CT colonography with air/carbon dioxide insufflation resulted in the detection of the cecal tumor. These cases highlight the possibility of false-negative results on conventional CT in patients with cecal endometriosis. We consider CT colonography with air/carbon dioxide insufflation useful for detecting cecal tumors in such cases.

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