Ileocecal endometriosis as an infrequent cause of intussusception

A rare case of ileocolic intussusception due to severe endometriosis

Intestinal intussusception is a rare cause of intestinal obstruction; intestinal intussusception associated with endometriosis is very rare. The varied clinical presentations make the diagnosis demanding. In this article, we report the case of a young female patient with an intestinal obstruction due to intussusception. The successive histologic examination of the resected sample showed advanced endometriosis. This is a very rare entity with only a few similar cases reported in the literature.

Laparoscopic management of a small bowel obstruction caused by an endometriotic focus

Endometriosis is the presence of extra-uterine endometrial tissue and affects 6-10% of fertile women. In 3-37% of the cases it affects the gastrointestinal tract being the ileal location extremely infrequent. Symptoms are nonspecific, debuting as intestinal obstruction in 7-23% of cases. The definitive diagnosis is anatomopathological and the treatment in these cases of acute abdomen is surgery. We attach the present case due to its rarity, it is a young asymptomatic woman who debuts with a picture of intestinal obstruction that is treated by intestinal resection via laparoscopy confirming the endometriosis etiology.

A new reported case of ileocecal infiltrative endometriosis, a disease which is probably underdiagnosed

We have read the recent publications by Guerra et al. and Ávila et al. of two clinical cases of ileocecal infiltrative endometriosis. We present a new case and wonder if this disease is more frequent than previously thought.