The British journal of clinical practice

Endometriosis is a relatively common condition in women of child-bearing age, and coincidental intestinal serosal involvement is frequently recognised. However, intestinal obstruction, although reported, is rare. We report what we believe i…

Although endometriosis is a common disease, small bowel involvement is unusual. We recently treated a patient in whom the diagnosis of endometriosis was made only after histological examination of a solitary lesion, which was obstructing th…

Colonic endometriosis is often difficult to diagnose pre-operatively and most cases are diagnosed postoperatively from histology. The main problems with pre-operative diagnosis are due to the radiographic similarities between endometriosis …