Intestinal endometriosis and its complications: case report and review
Cuzzo-Kriner, M.R.
Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine new York 56(4): 334-337
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 0027-2507 PMID: 2677701 Document Number: 344100
Endometriosis affects 8%-15% of all women, and of these 3%-37% have intestinal involvement. Affected women are typically of childbearing age and of low parity, with a history of cyclic abdominal pain and progressive dysmenorrhea. Endometriosis may involve the rectum and sigmoid, ileum, cecum, and appendix, generating symptoms suggestive of acute obstruction, appendicitis, ileitis, diverticulitis, or colonic carcinoma. Thus, this entity should be included in the differential diagnosis of recurrent abdominal pain and other episodic bowel symptoms in women of childbearing age.