A Case Report of Cecal Endometriosis Causing Intussusception

Abstract

We report a rare case of intestinal endometriosis causing intussusception. A 43-year-old woman reporting abdominal pain and intermittent diarrhea on July 22, 2002 was found in ultrasonography and computed tomography to have intestinal intussusception. Because of the mildness of symptoms, she wished to avoid surgery but increasing pain and loss of appetite led her to consent eventually to surgical intervention 9 days after the first consultation. A submucosal tumor in the cecum had advanced into the ascending colon, causing the intussusception, which was released bimanually, followed by ileocecal resection to remove the tumor. The histological diagnosis was ectopic endometriosis.