A Case of Endometriosis of the Ileum Causing Intestinal Obstruction.
This report details a case of ileal endometriosis causing intestinal obstruction in a 35-year-old woman, confirmed by surgery and histology, and reviews 25 prior Japanese cases.
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This paper reports a case of ileal endometriosis presenting with intestinal obstruction in a 35-year-old woman, who had abdominal pain associated with menstruation and required emergency admission in March 1991. After decompression with an ileus tube, small-bowel contrast imaging showed a stenotic lesion at the terminal ileum; the authors diagnosed ileal endometriosis and performed ileocecal resection with right salpingo-oophorectomy. Histology demonstrated endometrial tissue within the muscular layer of the bowel, and the authors note that Japanese reports of ileal endometriosis number 25 cases, describing the condition as rare, with diagnosis often starting from history of gynecologic symptoms. This paper is centrally about endometriosis — specifically ileal endometriosis causing intestinal obstruction.
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- A Case of Endometriosis with Repeated Ileal Obstruction Treated by Laparoscopic Surgery 2020
- A Case of Laparoscopic Ileocecal Resection for Recurrent Intestinal Obstruction Caused by Ileal Endometriosis 2019
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