title: Endosonographic image of a retrorectal bowel duplication: report of a case.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Endosonographic image and surgical therapy of a retrorectal bowel duplication are described.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Compared with standard investigations, the most accurate information about a retrorectal mass in a 35-year-old woman could be obtained by means of endorectal ultrasound. Guided by endorectal ultrasound, the mass was excised using a transanal-transrectal approach, and Kraske's operation could be avoided. Additionally, histopathologic analysis of this rare disease is presented.
authors.affiliation: Second Department of Surgery, University Hospital of Innsbruck, Austria.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Oberwalder
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tschmelitsch
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Conrad
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Offner
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D019160:Endosonography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012007:Rectum / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D018084:Ultrasonography, Interventional