Bowel endometriosis: Colorectal surgeon's perspective in a multidisciplinary surgical team

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 20, Issue 42, 2014, Pages 15616-15623

  Wolthuis, Albert M ^a   Meuleman, Christel ^b   Tomassetti, Carla ^b   D'Hooghe, Thomas ^b   De Buck Van Overstraeten, Anthony ^a   D'Hoore, André ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Colorectal endometriosis; Deeply infiltrative endometriosis; Diagnosis; Endometriosis; Laparoscopy; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOWEL ENDOMETRIOSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSTIPATION; DIARRHEA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENTEROPATHY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; IRRITABLE COLON; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; PREGNANCY RATE; RECTOSIGMOID ENDOMETRIOSIS; RECTOVAGINAL DEEP ENDOMETRIOSIS; RECTUM; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RECTUM TUMOR; SIGMOID; TENESMUS; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; COOPERATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; INTESTINAL DISEASES; LAPAROSCOPY; PATIENT CARE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; INTESTINAL DISEASES; LAPAROSCOPY; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84912077803     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: 22192840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v20.i42.15616     Document Type: Article

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