Clinical course and surgical treatment of intestinal endometriosis
Tsvelev, I.V.; Klur, V.I.; Baskakov, V.P.; Gu'rev, A.V.
Vestnik Khirurgii Imeni I. I. Grekova 143(9): 10-13
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 0042-4625 PMID: 2617759 Document Number: 347166
The article presents clinical characteristics of the disease and an analysis of results of treatment of 33 patients with endometriosis of the colon. Ways of spreading endometriosis resulting in alteration of the intestine are shown such as the invasive, implantational and metastatic ways. Resection of the intestine wall with anastomosis in 3/4 after Melnikov was fulfilled in 15 patients with endometriosis of the sigmoid and superampullar portion of the large intestine. Low frontal resection with the formation of compression anastomosis with the help of a native device AKA-2 was performed in 18 patients with the alteration of the rectum. Reinforcing hormone therapy is recommended to all the patients in the postoperative period.