Kirien T. Kjossev

ORCID: 0000-0002-1650-9536 · 1 paper in corpus

article 2020

Ileus caused by small bowel, ileocaecal and rectal endometriosis misdiagnosed as Crohn’s disease and managed by synchronous ileocaecal and rectal resection

Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England ·doi:10.1308/rcsann.2020.0118

The reported incidence of intestinal endometriosis varies between 22% and 37%, with bowel obstruction in only 2.3% of cases, but few series report acute obstruction. We report a rare case of acute bowel obstruction due to multiple bilateral…