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Isolated endometriosis of the small bowel presenting as acute small bowel obstruction
S P Payne1, R F Pace, I S Benjamin
1Department of Surgery, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, London.
The British Journal of Clinical Practice
|January 1, 1991
Abstract:
Although endometriosis is a common disease, small bowel involvement is unusual. We recently treated a patient in whom the diagnosis of endometriosis was made only after histological examination of a solitary lesion, which was obstructing the distal ileum and had the clinical appearance of a malignant tumour.