Isolated endometriosis of the small bowel presenting as acute small bowel obstruction.
Although endometriosis is a common disease, small bowel involvement is unusual. We recently treated a patient in whom the diagnosis of endometriosis was made only after histological examination of a solitary lesion, which was obstructing the distal ileum and had the clinical appearance of a malignant tumour.
Department of Surgery, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, London.
S P
SP
Payne
R F
RF
Pace
I S
IS
Benjamin
D M
DM
Clark
D000328:Adult; D004715:Endometriosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007077:Ileal Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D007078:Ileal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D007415:Intestinal Obstruction / Q000209:etiology*