title: Spontaneous viable pregnancies in cervical and rectal endometriosis: a report of two cases.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To report two cases of advanced pelvic endometriosis, both with deep rectal involvement and one with extensive cervical involvement appearing like a carcinoma, where both patients achieved spontaneous pregnancy and delivered viable babies.
  
  
  METHODS
  Case report.
  
  
  METHODS
  Institute of Reproductive Medicine.
  
  
  METHODS
  Two nulliparous patients, one with extensive cervical and rectal and other with deep rectal endometriosis and primary infertility.
  
  
  METHODS
  Medical management.
  
  
  METHODS
  Description and treatment of two patients with advanced pelvic endometriosis and pregnancy.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Delivery of viable babies in both cases.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Prolonged medical treatment may have helped to arrest the progression of the disease by restoring anatomic proximity leading to spontaneous pregnancy in both cases.
authors.affiliation: School of Medical Science and Technology, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, Kolkata, India.
authors.forename: Asha Latha
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Ganesh
authors.forename: Baidyanath
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Chakravarty
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004715:Endometriosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007247:Infertility, Female / Q000209:etiology*; D050498:Live Birth; D011247:Pregnancy; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome; D012002:Rectal Diseases; D002577:Uterine Cervical Diseases