title: Acute small bowel obstruction due to ileal endometriosis: a case report and review of the most recent literature.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Endometriosis is defined as the presence of benign endometrial glands and stroma outside the normal anatomical location. Endometriosis of the small bowel, especially symptomatic small bowel involvement, is very unusual.
  
  
  METHODS
  We presented a 45-year-old woman with acute intestinal obstruction due to ileal endometriosis The patient complained of severe abdominal pain, nausea and vomitting. Immediate laparotomy was carried out. Above the ileocecal valve there was an ulcerated, edematous and fragile segmental lesion that caused intestinal obstruction. Histology of this ileal segment revealed endometriosis and an annular stricture that again showed foci of endometriosis.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In reproductive-age women with the symptoms of intestinal obstruction, intestinal endometriosis should be kept in mind.
authors: Surgery Clinic, Ataturk Training and Research Hospital 4, Izmir, Turkey.
authors: Haluk Recai
authors: HR
authors: Unalp
authors: Taner
authors: T
authors: Akguner
authors: Ali
authors: A
authors: Yavuzcan
authors: Nese
authors: N
authors: Ekinci
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D004715:Endometriosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007077:Ileal Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D007415:Intestinal Obstruction / Q000209:etiology*; D007421:Intestine, Small; D008875:Middle Aged