Intestinal endometriosis as a surgical problem
Schmid, L.; Hell, K.; Rossetti, M.
Helvetica Chirurgica Acta 46(5-6): 827-832
1980
ISSN/ISBN: 0018-0181 PMID: 7399967 Document Number: 164626
6 cases of colonic endometriosis, treated by surgery, are presented. The average age was 50 years. All patients also had concomitant genital endometriosis and 5 of these 6 women have had previous pregnancies. Pathological findings were intramural colonic growth leading to stenosis and tumor like endometriomas. 3 times a sigma resection, once an ileo-cecal and once an anterior resection was carried out, there is in one instancy the stenosis could be overcome by enucleation. Postoperative course was uneventful, but one case later on developed a rectal carcinoma--first mistaken as recurrence of intestinal endometriosis.