Masaya Iwamuro, Takehiro Tanaka, Yuusaku Sugihara, Keita Harada, Sakiko Hiraoka, Yoshitaka Kondo, Hiroyuki Okada
Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) 2021 Jun 01We herein report two patients with endometriosis in the cecum. Both patients presented with a protruding, subepithelial tumor on colonoscopy and were diagnosed with cecal endometriosis after surgical resection. It is notable that the cecal lesions were not initially identified on computed tomography (CT), while CT colonography with air/carbon dioxide insufflation resulted in the detection of the cecal tumor. These cases highlight the possibility of false-negative results on conventional CT in patients with cecal endometriosis. We consider CT colonography with air/carbon dioxide insufflation useful for detecting cecal tumors in such cases.
Masaya Iwamuro, Takehiro Tanaka, Yuusaku Sugihara, Keita Harada, Sakiko Hiraoka, Yoshitaka Kondo, Hiroyuki Okada. Two Cases of Endometriosis in the Cecum Detected by Contrast-enhanced Computed Tomography with Air/Carbon Dioxide Insufflation. Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan). 2021 Jun 01;60(11):1697-1701
PMID: 33390498
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