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Endometriosis of the bowel most often involves the sigmoid and rectosigmoid and appears as an intramural mass protruding into the lumen in a polypoid or constricting fashion. Occasionally there is an intraluminal mass without obvious intramural involvement. Endometriosis of bowel is rarely diagnosed at endoscopic biopsy. We present a patient with an intraluminal endometrioma with a positive endoscopic biopsy.
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Bashist, B., Forde, K.A. & McCaffrey, R.M. Polypoid endometrioma of the rectosigmoid. Gastrointest Radiol 8, 85–88 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01948095
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