Rectosigmoid endometriosis: Diagnostic pitfalls and management – A case report

Endometriosis constitutes a benign condition, occurring in 10%–12% of menstruating women. Bowel involvement is estimated to occur in 5%–12% with the rectosigmoid region involved in up to 90% of these cases. We present the case of a 45‐year‐old Caucasian female patient with rectosigmoid endometriosis...

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Autores principales: Piachas, Athanasios, Smyrnis, Panagiotis, Tooulias, Andreas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8859406/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35369388
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5222
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author Piachas, Athanasios
Smyrnis, Panagiotis
Tooulias, Andreas
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description Endometriosis constitutes a benign condition, occurring in 10%–12% of menstruating women. Bowel involvement is estimated to occur in 5%–12% with the rectosigmoid region involved in up to 90% of these cases. We present the case of a 45‐year‐old Caucasian female patient with rectosigmoid endometriosis.
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spelling pubmed-88594062022-03-31 Rectosigmoid endometriosis: Diagnostic pitfalls and management – A case report Piachas, Athanasios Smyrnis, Panagiotis Tooulias, Andreas Clin Case Rep Case Reports Endometriosis constitutes a benign condition, occurring in 10%–12% of menstruating women. Bowel involvement is estimated to occur in 5%–12% with the rectosigmoid region involved in up to 90% of these cases. We present the case of a 45‐year‐old Caucasian female patient with rectosigmoid endometriosis. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-02-20 /pmc/articles/PMC8859406/ /pubmed/35369388 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5222 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Rectosigmoid endometriosis: Diagnostic pitfalls and management – A case report
title Rectosigmoid endometriosis: Diagnostic pitfalls and management – A case report
title_full Rectosigmoid endometriosis: Diagnostic pitfalls and management – A case report
title_fullStr Rectosigmoid endometriosis: Diagnostic pitfalls and management – A case report
title_full_unstemmed Rectosigmoid endometriosis: Diagnostic pitfalls and management – A case report
title_short Rectosigmoid endometriosis: Diagnostic pitfalls and management – A case report
title_sort rectosigmoid endometriosis: diagnostic pitfalls and management – a case report
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8859406/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35369388
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5222
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