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BACKGROUND: This pilot study evaluates the efficacy of norethisterone acetate in treating pain and gastrointestinal symptoms of women with colorectal endometriosis. METHODS: This prospective study included 40 women with colorectal endometr…

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether the presence of uterine adenomyosis may impair the amelioration of pain symptoms after laparoscopic excision of pelvic endometriosis combined with colorectal resection. STUDY DESIGN: This prospective study i…

Introduction: Although various techniques have been proposed for the diagnosis of bowel endometriosis, no gold standard is currently available. The objective of this study is to compare the effectiveness of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) …

Introduction: Multidetector computerized tomography enteroclysis (MDCTe) has been demonstrated to be accurate in the diagnosis of bowel endometriosis. In this study we present a modified protocol of MDCTe which allows to study the urinary t…

Introduction: This study aims to determine whether uterine adenomyosis may impair the improvement of pain symptoms afterlaparoscopic excision of pelvic endometriosis combined with colorectal resection.\nMaterials and methods: Subjects of th…

We report on a patient with a bowel endometriotic nodule that was hypointense on both T1- and T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); histologic examination revealed that the MRI appearance of the nodule was due to the presence of ext…

Although several radiological techniques have been used for the diagnosis of bowel endometriosis, no gold standard is currently established. We used multislice computerized tomography (CT) combined with the distention of the colon by rectal…

This prospective study aims to evaluate the efficacy of multislice computed tomography combined with colon distension by water enteroclysis (MSCTe) in determining the presence and depth of bowel endometriotic lesions. Ninety-eight women wit…