Magnetic Resonance Colonography May Predict the Need for Bowel Resection in Colorectal Endometriosis

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29-year-old woman with DPE and infiltrative nodule requiring conservative serosal shaving of the rectum. (a) Axial T2W image, (b) sagittal T2W image, and (c) MR-Colonography. Pelvic tethering involving the left ovary and the rectum with Douglas pouch obliteration. A small infiltrative nodule (short axis 7 mm) is visible on the anterior wall of the rectum (arrowheads). Presence of left endometrioma (). MR-Colonography demonstrates a low degree of stenosis of 20% (c).

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