Endometriosis, the great imitator – a successful case of fertility preservation in a woman receiving sterilizing treatment due to a diagnosis of rectosigmoid carcinoma

Anna Marklund, Annika Sjövall, Lennart Blomqvist, Joseph Carlson, Joseph W. Carlson, Kenny A. Rodriguez‐Wallberg
Gynecological endocrinology : the official journal of the International Society of Gynecological Endocrinology · 2019 · vol. 35(11) , pp. 945–948 · doi:10.1080/09513590.2019.1633298 · PMID:31248302 · W2955619590
article OA: bronze CC0 ⤵ 3 in-corpus citations
📄 Open PDF View on OpenAlex View on PubMed View at publisher
⚙ AI-generated summary by claude@2026-06, 2026-06-07 ⓘ

This case highlights endometriosis mimicking rectosigmoid cancer in a young woman, emphasizing the importance of fertility preservation before sterilizing treatments.

One-sentence paraphrase of the abstract; not a substitute for reading it. No clinical advice. How this works

Abstract

Bowels are the most common site of extrapelvic endometriosis. Still, colonic endometriosis often presents a diagnostic challenge, mimicking a broad spectrum of diseases including primary colonic malignancy. For women of fertile age, the consequences of endometriosis being misdiagnosed as colorectal cancer may include loss of fertility. We hereby present a case of endometriosis mimicking rectosigmoid adenocarcinoma in a young woman, where fertility preservation prior to the start of antineoplastic treatments turned out to be of crucial importance for the woman's future attempts to achieve a pregnancy and livebirth.

My notes (saved in your browser only)

Condition tags

endometriosis

MeSH descriptors

Diagnostic Errors Endometriosis Fertility Preservation Infertility, Female Rectal Neoplasms Adult Endometriosis Endometriosis Female Humans Iatrogenic Disease Infertility, Female Pregnancy Rectal Neoplasms Rectal Neoplasms

Citation neighborhood

Papers in the corpus that this work cites (lower rings, blue) and that cite this one (upper rings, green). Dot size scales with the paper's in-corpus citation count — bigger dot = more influential within the endo/adeno field. Click a dot to open that paper. [ expand to 2 hops ] — adds papers reached through this work's immediate citers/citees. Heavier; up to 60 extra dots.

References (19)

Cited by (3)

Source provenance

europepmc
last seen: 2026-06-11T06:19:48.454388+00:00
openalex
last seen: 2026-06-10T17:14:06.276822+00:00
pubmed
last seen: 2026-05-13T22:22:41.077124+00:00
License: CC0 · commercial use OK