Rectosigmoid endometriosis: diagnosis and surgical management.
The recurrence of endometriosis varies from 6% to 10% and, among the non-gynaecological sites, the bowel is involved in 12%-37%. Various symptoms, such as dysmenorrhea, dyspareunia, chronic pelvic pain, diarrhoea, constipation, cyclic rectal bleeding, colic-abdominal pain up to intestinal occlusion characterize this pathology. Surgery seems to be the best treatment especially for gastrointestinal symptoms; conservative surgery should be performed, particularly in young patients. Four cases of intestinal endometriosis were reevaluated.
Azzena
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Gynaecology and Obstetrics Department, University of Padua, Italy.
Litta
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P
Ferrara
A
A
Perin
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D
Brotto
M
M
Chiarelli
S
S
Sandei
F
F
D000328:Adult; D003108:Colonic Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D003248:Constipation; D003967:Diarrhea; D004412:Dysmenorrhea; D004414:Dyspareunia; D004715:Endometriosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008597:Menstrual Cycle; D008875:Middle Aged; D017699:Pelvic Pain; D012810:Sigmoid Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*