Revista espanola de enfermedades digestivas

An 82-year-old woman presented with painless hematochezia. Colonoscopy revealed a submucosal tumor-like mass in the cecum. The appendiceal orifice was identified in the center of the prominence, showing the volcano sign. The yellowish mucus…

Benign Multicystic Peritoneal Mesothelioma (BMPM) is a rare mesothelial neoplasm, first described in 1979, with an estimated incidence of 1-2 cases per million. It primarily affects women of reproductive age and has been associated with chr…

OBJECTIVES: The objective of this review is to identify key clinical lessons and highlight diagnostic and therapeutic strategies derived from case reports and recent literature. Particular attention is given to recognising overlapping prese…

We report the case of a 37-year old woman with a history of ovarian endometriosis who was referred for cyclical episodes of hematochezia during her menstrual period. Colonoscopy and Computed Tomography were performed with a final diagnosis …

A 66-year-old female consulted due to headache associated with diaphoresis, constipation, and melena. A urinalysis revealed elevated metanephrines, and colonoscopy identified an extrinsic sigmoid stricture. CT and MRI showed a presacral mas…

A 34-year-old female with stricturing ileal Crohn´s disease (CD) treated with adalimumab presented with recurrent subocclusive episodes and clinical worsening. First, she received corticosteroids without any clinical improvement.

Appendicular invagination is a rare situation, with an incidence of 0.01 %. The clinical presentation can be variable from acute appendicitis to chronic abdominal pain, intestinal obstruction by intussusception or simply appear as a radiolo…

Endometriosis is the presence of extra-uterine endometrial tissue and affects 6-10% of fertile women. In 3-37% of the cases it affects the gastrointestinal tract being the ileal location extremely infrequent. Symptoms are nonspecific, debut…

We have read the recent publications by Guerra et al. and Ávila et al. of two clinical cases of ileocecal infiltrative endometriosis. We present a new case and wonder if this disease is more frequent than previously thought.

Deep infiltrating endometriosis (DIE) of the ileum is an uncommon lesion that may be severe in its clinical presentation. Its diagnosis is challenging in the absence of a gynecological history of endometriosis and because of its anatomical …

We present a case of ileocecal endometriosis as a cause of infrequent ileocolic intussusception in an adult patient. It is reviewed as published by the authors Sanchez Cifuentes, A et al. 2016, emphasizing the rarity of the location of endo…

Anisakiasis and endometriosis is rare cause of intestinal obstruction and even perforation, the latter being extremely rare. We report the case of a patient with intestinal obstruction that progress to perforation and whose differential dia…

Intestinal endometriosis is defined as a bowel infiltration by ectopic endometrial tissue. The prevalence is 3-37% of all women affected by endometriosis. Rectosigmoid colon is the most frequent location (70-93%), followed to ileocecal regi…

BACKGROUND: Endometriosis is a relatively common disease among women with child-bearing potential, and rare before puberty or following menopause. It consists of the presence of hormone-responsive endometrium outside the endometrial cavity.…

sions located in the pelvis (Fig. 1). One of the lesions affected the right annexial region while the remaining lesions were located in the visceral peritoneum involving the small bowel. The largest lesion measured approximately 3 cm in dia…