Exceptional cause of bowel obstruction: Rectal endometriosis mimicking carcinoma of rectum - A case report

Pan African Medical Journal

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Sassi, Selim ^a   Bouassida, Mahdi ^a   Touinsi, Hassen ^a   Mighri, Mohamed Mongi ^a   Baccari, Sonia ^a   Chebbi, Fathi ^a   Bouzeidi, Khaled ^a   Sassi, Sadok ^a  

^a Mohamed Thahar Maamouri Hospital   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Bowel obstruction; Endometriosis; Malignancy; Surgery; Tunisia

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL ANASTOMOSIS; CONSTIPATION; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HEMATOCHEZIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; LAPAROTOMY; RECTAL ENDOMETRIOSIS; RECTUM CARCINOMA; RECTUM DISEASE; RECTUM SURGERY; SALPINGECTOMY; STENOSIS; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 84862268972     PISSN: 19378688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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