Acta gastro-enterologica Belgica
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Acta Gastroenterol. Belg. · Jul 1998
Case ReportsAcute intestinal obstruction caused by endometriosis mimicking sigmoid carcinoma.
Endometriosis is a relatively frequent disease in fertile women. The intestine is involved in 12-37% 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.