Turkish Journal of Colorectal Disease (Dec 2020)

Mechanical Small-Bowel Obstruction due to Ileal endometriosis

  • Ünal Sabancı,
  • Taner Oruğ,
  • Burcu Gül

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4274/tjcd.galenos.2020.2020-4-10
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 30, no. 4
pp. 311 – 314

Abstract

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Mechanical small-bowel obstruction is a very common surgical emergency, but obstruction due to endometriosis is very rare, and only a few cases have been reported in the literature. Herein, we present the case of a 28-year-old female who presented with abdominal pain, loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting. Plain abdominal X-ray showed multiple air-fluid images. Abdominal computed tomography revealed dilated ileal segments and airfluid images. The patient underwent a partial ileum resection + ileo-ileostomy. In the histopathological examination, endometriosis was confirmed between the ileal segments.

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