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Acta Gastroenterol. Belg. · Jul 1998
Case ReportsAcute intestinal obstruction caused by endometriosis mimicking sigmoid carcinoma.
- E de Bree, G Schoretsanitis, J Melissas, M Christodoulakis, and D Tsiftsis.
- Department of Surgical Oncology, University General Hospital, Herakleion, Greece.
- Acta Gastroenterol. Belg. 1998 Jul 1; 61 (3): 376-8.
AbstractEndometriosis is a relatively frequent disease in fertile women. The intestine is involved in 12-37% of cases. Intestinal endometriosis is usually asymptomatic and complete obstruction of the bowel lumen occurs in less than 1% of cases. We report a case of endometriosis of the sigmoid, which caused complete intestinal obstruction and mimicked carcinoma of the sigmoid colon. This case demonstrates the difficulty of establishing an accurate pre- and peroperative diagnosis and the propensity of intestinal endometriosis to mimic colon cancer.
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