Intestinal endometriosis mimicking Crohn's disease: a rare cause of nonspecific abdominal pain

This clinical vignette presents a case of intestinal endometriosis that clinically and radiologically mimicked Crohn's disease in a patient presenting with nonspecific abdominal pain. The authors highlight the diagnostic challenge posed by the overlapping symptoms and imaging features of these two distinct conditions, emphasizing the need for high clinical suspicion. The paper serves as a reminder that endometriosis can present with gastrointestinal manifestations that are easily misdiagnosed as inflammatory bowel disease without thorough evaluation. This paper is centrally about endometriosis — specifically deep infiltrating intestinal endometriosis that presents with symptoms resembling Crohn's disease.

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