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Videosurgery and Other Miniinvasive Techniques
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Case report

A pseudoneoplastic finding of deep endometriosis: laparoscopic triple segmental bowel resection

Stefano Cosma
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Marcello Ceccaroni
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Chiara Benedetto

Videosurgery Miniinv 2014; 9 (3): 415-419
Online publish date: 2014/03/25
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Bowel endometriosis affects 3–37% of patients with endometriosis, involving more frequently the rectum and the rectosigmoid junction. Severe endometriosis with bowel involvement is often refractory to standard medical therapy. For these reasons, surgery for bowel treatment is frequently needed. We report the case of a 36-year-old woman with deep endometriosis of the pelvis, triple segmental bowel involvement (recto-sigma, ileum-cecum, transverse colon) and massive endometriotic ascites with secondary Glisson’s capsule inflammation, refractory to medical therapy. A laparoscopic triple segmental bowel resection and complete fertility sparing excision of pelvic endometriotic lesions was performed. At 48 months of follow-up, the woman was asymptomatic, with no evidence of recurrence of disease or ascites. Laparoscopic segmental bowel resection, including multiple section, is feasible in selected symptomatic patients with consequent improved quality of life, morbidity rates similar to those achieved by laparotomy and with a less detrimental effect on fertility.
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laparoscopy, endometriosis, bowel resection, ascites

  
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