@Article{Śmigielski2013,
journal="Menopause Review/Przegląd Menopauzalny",
issn="1643-8876",
volume="12",
number="2",
year="2013",
title="Endometriosis of colon as a cause mimicking Crohn’s disease: a potential pitfall in diagnosis",
abstract="Endometriosis is a common condition in many women of the child-bearing age. It affects approximately 8-15% of the menstruating female population. Usually endometriosis can be found in the peritoneal cavity. Ectopic foci can be located in a number of other organs, such as the lung, gall bladder, retroperitoneal space, stomach, small and large intestine and pancreas. It is found beyond the peritoneal cavity in 0.2% of the population. Endometriotic foci in the colon have already been discussed, however, there is a rare type of this condition that imitates Crohn’s disease. This paper presents a long-term disease which was diagnosed and treated as Crohn’s disease. In the third year of treatment, colonic endometriosis was diagnosed correctly.",
author="Śmigielski, Jacek
and Woźniak, Beata
and Brocki, Marian",
pages="163--165",
doi="10.5114/pm.2013.35079",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/pm.2013.35079"
}