title: Rectosigmoid endometriosis: diagnosis and surgical management.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Gynaecology and Obstetrics Department, University of Padua, Italy.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Azzena
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Litta
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ferrara
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Perin
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Brotto
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Chiarelli
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Sandei
mesh_terms: 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*