Acute intestinal obstruction caused by endometriosis mimicking sigmoid carcinoma.
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This report details a case where sigmoid endometriosis caused complete intestinal obstruction, highlighting diagnostic challenges in distinguishing it from sigmoid carcinoma.
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Endometriosis is a relatively frequent disease in fertile women. The intestine is involved in 12-37% of cases. Intestinal endometriosis is usually asymptomatic and complete obstruction of the bowel lumen occurs in less than 1% of cases. We report a case of endometriosis of the sigmoid, which caused complete intestinal obstruction and mimicked carcinoma of the sigmoid colon. This case demonstrates the difficulty of establishing an accurate pre- and peroperative diagnosis and the propensity of intestinal endometriosis to mimic colon cancer.
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