Elliot K. Fishman

ORCID: 0000-0002-2567-1658 · 5 papers in corpus · active 1983-2024

Study types

  • article 3
  • case-report 2

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 5
case-report 2024
Radiology case reports ·doi:10.1016/j.radcr.2024.06.012

Endometriosis is a chronic disease characterized by the presence and growth of endometrial glands and stroma outside of the uterine cavity. The pathogenesis is unclear, but a common theory attributes the condition to retrograde menstruation…

case-report 2023
Emergency radiology ·doi:10.1007/s10140-023-02128-7

The purpose of this pictorial essay is to highlight atypical and unusual presentations of endometriosis that can be missed or misinterpreted in the emergency setting. Although endometriosis is a chronic disease, it can present acutely with …

article 2013

Colonic endometriosis has been reported in the literature to mimic colon cancer. Patients can present with symptoms almost identical to colon cancer. We present an exemplary case of a woman who was found to have a mass on conventional colon…

article 2009
Case reports in medicine ·doi:10.1155/2009/379578

Colonic endometriosis has been reported in the literature to mimic colon cancer. Patients can present with symptoms almost identical to colon cancer. We present an exemplary case of a woman who was found to have a mass on conventional colon…

article 1983
Journal of computer assisted tomography ·doi:10.1097/00004728-198304000-00010

Six examples of pelvic masses due to endometriosis were detected by computed tomography (CT) in a group of women aged 30-43. Lower abdominal or pelvic pain was the chief complaint in four cases. The ileum and rectosigmoid were routinely opa…