Endometriotic stricture of the sigmoid colon presenting with intestinal obstruction
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This paper describes a young woman who experienced intestinal obstruction due to an endometriotic stricture of the sigmoid colon, a rare presentation of endometriosis.
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Endometriosis, a relatively common condition, rarely involves the bowel; even more rarely does it present as a large-bowel stricture with intestinal obstruction. We report the case of a young woman who presented to an emergency department with intestinal obstruction secondary to an endometriotic stricture of the sigmoid colon, without evidence of disease elsewhere in the peritoneal cavity. Although large-bowel obstruction is usually caused by a malignant tumour, it can sometimes result from rare causes such as endometriosis. Symptoms of a cyclical nature may remind the clinician of this possibility.
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- Endometriosis Causing Large Bowel Obstruction: A Case Report 2023
- Diagnosis and surgical treatment of acute intestinal obstruction caused by extragenital form of endometriosis 2020
- Intestinal obstruction secondary to cecal endometriosis 2018
- [Bowel endometriosis: new challenge for gastroenterology and surgery? Three cases of endometriosis caused large bowel ileus and review of the literature] 2016
- [Acute obstructive ileus in diffuse infiltrative endometriosis] 2016
- Bowel endometriosis: an unusual cause of rectal bleeding 2016
- Sigmoid colon endometriotic mass. A rare cause of complete large bowel obstruction 2015
- Endometriosis masquerading as Crohn's disease in a patient with acute small bowel obstruction 2015
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