Deep pelvic endometriosis: MR colonography increases the detection of colorectal involvement

Arnaldo Scardapane
2010 · doi:10.1594/ecr2010/c-1295 · W2493443455
OA: green CC0
🔓 Open OA copy Full text JSON View on OpenAlex View at publisher
⚙ AI-generated summary by qwen3.7-flash, 2026-08-23 ⓘ

This study investigated deep pelvic endometriosis and found that MR colonography increases the detection of colorectal involvement in affected patients.

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

⚙ AI-generated deep summary by qwen3.7-flash, 2026-09-24 · read from full text ⓘ

This study evaluated the diagnostic accuracy of combining pelvic magnetic resonance imaging with MR colonography for detecting colorectal involvement in patients with suspected deep pelvic endometriosis. The researchers analyzed data from 61 women, comparing radiological findings against laparoscopic results to assess sensitivity and interobserver agreement. The combination of these imaging modalities significantly improved the detection rate of bowel lesions and increased consistency between readers compared to pelvic MRI alone. This paper is centrally about endometriosis — specifically the evaluation of advanced imaging techniques for identifying deep infiltrating disease within the colorectum.

Read from the paper's body, not the abstract. Not a substitute for reading the paper. No clinical advice. How this works

Abstract

Poster: ECR 2010 / C-1295 / Deep pelvic endometriosis: MR colonography increases the detection of colorectal involvement by: Scardapane, S. Bettocchi, M. Lasciarrea, F. Lorusso, A. A. A. Stabile Ianora, M. Moschetta, G. Angelelli; Bari/IT
Full text 2,429 characters · extracted from oa-html · 5 sections · click to expand

Keywords

Genital / Reproductive system female, Obstetrics (Pregnancy / birth / postnatal period), Pelvis Authors: A. Scardapane, S. Bettocchi, M. Lasciarrea, F. Lorusso, A. A. A. Stabile Ianora, M. Moschetta, G. Angelelli; Bari/IT DOI: 10.1594/ecr2010/C-1295 Purpose To compare the accuracy of pelvic MRI and MR colonography (MRC) in the detection of colorectal endometriosis.

Methods

and Materials Sixty-one consecutive women with suspicion of endometriosis underwent pelvic MRI which was completed with contrast enhanced MRC. MRI and MRC were considered as two dataset which were independently reviewed by two radiologists respectively with 3 years (R1) and 10 years (R2) experience. The presence of ovarian endometriomas, pelvic nodules, Douglas obliteration, and colorectal nodules were recorded. MR findings were correlate to laparoscopy in all the cases.

Results

Sixty-five endometriomas were found in 56/61 patients (size 0,5-70 mm, mean 2,8 mm) by both the radiologists. Pelvic nodule were found in 16 women, while an obliterated douglas pouch was shown in 9 patients by R1 and R2. Colorectal involvement was diagnosed at pelvic MRI in 4/61 cases by R1 and in 9/61 cases by R2 (k= 0,57). Using MRC, colorectal involvement was shown in 10/61 cases and 11/61 cases respectively (K=0,94). Laparoscopy demonstrated the presence of colorectal involvement in 13/61 with no false positive...

Conclusion

The combinations of pelvic MRI and MRC increases the sensitivity and NPV in the detection of colorectal endometriosis. Moreover an higher interobserver agreement is achieved using MRC compared with pelvic MRI.

References

1. Bazot M, Darai E, Hourani R, Thomassin I, Cortez A, Uzan S, et al. Deep pelvic endometriosis: MR imaging for diagnosis and prediction of extension of disease. Radiology. 2004 ;232(2):379-89.2. Belaisch J. Endometriosis: is laparoscopy justified without previous ultrasonogram and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)?. Fertility and sterility. 2010. DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.11.0263. Biscaldi E, Ferrero S, Fulcheri E, Ragni N, Remorgida V, Rollandi GA. Multislice CT enteroclysis in the diagnosis of bowel endometriosis. European radiology. 2007 ;17(1):211-9.4. Chamié LP, Blasbalg R, Gonçalves MO, Carvalho FM, Abrão...

Text is read by the "Ask this paper" AI Q&A widget below. Extraction quality varies by source — PMC NXML preserves structure cleanly, OA-HTML may include some navigation residue, and OA-PDF can have broken hyphenation. The publisher copy (via DOI) is the canonical version.

My notes (saved in your browser only)

⚙ Ask this paper AI returns verbatim quotes from the full text · source: oa-html ⓘ

Answers must be backed by verbatim quotes from this paper's full text. Hallucinated quotes are dropped automatically; if no verbatim passage answers the question, we say so. How this works

Condition tags

endometriosis

Citation neighborhood (no data yet)

We don't have any in-corpus citations linked to this paper yet. The paper's references may be in our DB but unresolved to ``paper_id`` (resolution happens at ingest when the cited DOI matches a row we already have). Run the cross-source citation reconcile pass to retry.

Source provenance

openalex
last seen: 2026-06-10T17:14:06.276822+00:00
License: CC0 · commercial use OK