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Abstract
Endometriosis is a gynecologic disease consisting in ectopic foci of the endometrium with recurrent bleeding, and it is responsible of chronic pelvic pain in female. Ectopic endometrium frequently is located in the annex or along uterine ligaments and in the Douglas pouch. Other locations of pelvic endometriosis are represented by the rectovaginal septum, rectal wall, and sigmoid and small bowel serosa. In such cases endometriosis can present with small implants on the serosa or can evolve in chronic inflammatory disease followed by pelvic adhesion and fibrosis. In a more invalidating pattern called deep pelvic endometriosis, large fibrotic nodules or ill-defined fibrotic masses present an infiltrative pattern from the serosa to the muscular layer to the submucosa of the gut with possible luminal narrowing.
Keywords
Chronic Pelvic Pain Perianal Fistula Rectovaginal Septum Pelvic Endometriosis Eosinophilic GastroenteritisSuggested Reading
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