Journal de chirurgie

Intestinal endometriosis accounts for 8-12% of all endometriosis and rectal involvement is most often encountered in the context of deep pelvic infiltration. Intestinal symptoms, often nonspecific, are most typically seen as painful defecat…

Ovarian cysts occur frequently in women of reproductive age. These are usually functional cysts which resolve spontaneously and whose evolution can be followed with ultrasound. Non-functional cysts have diverse histologic origins. The most …

The purpose of this review is to define the diagnostic steps and treatment of abdominopelvic actinomycosis. Three cases are described which illustrate the variety of clinical presentations ranging from acute peritonitis to chronic pseudo-tu…

Laparoscopic preparation before colectomy consists of freeing the colon laparoscopically followed by a small elective laparotomy for resection and anastomosis. From January 1993 to October 1994, we performed 86 consecutive planned colectomi…

Endometriosis is rarely located on the small bowel. A case of small bowel perforation resulting from a stenosis due to endometriosis is reported. Pre-operative diagnosis of this type of lesion is most difficult in genetically active women s…

Parietal endometriosis is a rare disease, for which the pathogenesis is still ill-known and the diagnosis frequently difficult. The author reports about two cases of endometriosis on cesarean scars and, in the light of the literature, sums …

Seven cases of pelvic endometriosis of the urinary or digestive tracts are reported: 4 cases of vesical endometriosis, 1 case of ureteral involvement, 1 rectal case and 1 sigmoid location. The authors point out the difficulty of the clinica…

The authors report 5 cases of intestinal endometriosis which required resection. They review the pathological characteristics and attempt to define the while accepting that the indications for resection should be extremely limited from both…

The authors report a rare case of ileo-caecal-appendicular endometriosis which presented as an acute peritonitis. In their commentary they review the notions concerning the most frequent acute manifestations in the intestinal localization a…

If endometriosis is particularly well known by Gynecologists, ureteral complications of this disease are very rare. We have had the occasion to observe four cases of ureteral stenosis by extrinsic compression of a pelvic endometriosis, and …

Endometriosis involving the digestive tract accounts for 1% of all cases of the disease. There is a marked predominance in the recto-sigmoid and terminal ileal loops. Symptomatology is dominated by disturbances in intestinal transit, sub-oc…

The majority of the 82 cases of tubal choriocarcinoma reported in the published literature followed malignant transformation of a tubal ectopic pregnancy. The case presented was not related to ectopic pregnancy but was apparently the result…

A bibliographical review it's been made on the base of a double rara localization of endometriosis: ileal and appendicular, marking the diagnostic difficulties found appendicular, marking the diagnostic-difficulties found before and after s…

The authors report 4 new cases of stenosis of the small intestine of endometrial origin. They emphasize the rareness of these stenosing forms which in most recent series intervened in 1 case of endometriosis out of 1,000 (Martinbeau). They …

The authors report three rare localisations of endometriosis: ileal, appendicular and free endometrioma of the pouch of Douglas and study the diagnostic difficulties of digestive endometriosis and the interest of routine histological examin…