{"paper_id":"838b85ff-e523-4b5a-bb0d-331471dbda17","body_text":"Clinical Studies\nIleal Endometriosis Masquerading as Crohn's Ileitis\n- Ralph Boulton\n- Mukesh H. Chawla\n- Simon Poole\n- Humphrey J. F. Hodgson\n- Ian G. Barrison\nJournal of Clinical Gastroenterology 25(1):p 338-342, July 1997.\nEndometriosis is usually confined to the pelvis but may involve distant organs. When the small bowel is affected, endometriosis has a propensity to develop in the distal ileum, which may lead to fibrosis and stricture formation that can be confused with Crohn's disease. Here we describe two women, one with antecedent Crohn's colitis in whom ileal endometriosis mimicked obstructing Crohn's disease of the terminal ileum. These reports illustrate that ileal endometriosis must be considered in the differential diagnosis of Crohn's disease of the ileum, even in the presence of Crohn's disease elsewhere in the gastrointestinal tract.\nCopyright © Lippincott-Raven Publishers","source_license":"CC0","license_restricted":false}