Endometriosen im chirurgischen Krankengut

In general surgery patients, endometrioses can occur in the gastro-intestinal tract; they can also appear as cicatricial endometrioses or can be manifested as other, rare localisations of endometriosis tissue. In many cases it is not possible to arrive at a pre-operative diagnosis which is histologically established. Hence, treatment in endometriosis of the colon is surgical resection in order to delineate it against carcinoma and for the purpose of treating cicatricial stenosis which is usually associated with endometriosis. In cicatricial endometrioses and cysts in the inguinal region, diagnosis became possible only after surgery and postoperative histological examination.