Intestinal endometriosis mimicking carcinoma of rectum and sigmoid colon: A report of five cases

Yonsei Medical Journal

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 732-735

  Jin, Soo Kim ^a   Hyuk, Hur ^a   Byung, Soh Min ^a   Hoguen, Kim ^a   Sohn, Seung Kook ^a   Chang, Hwan Cho ^a   Nam, Kyu Kim ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Colorectal neoplasm; Endometriosis; Intestinal endometriosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTIPATION; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOSCOPIC BIOPSY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; HEMATOCHEZIA; HUMAN; INTESTINE ENDOMETRIOSIS; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROTOMY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MUCOSAL DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; CARCINOMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SIGMOID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 70449699720     PISSN: 05135796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3349/ymj.2009.50.5.732     Document Type: Article

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