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Endometriosis of the rectum is one of the rare conditions of intrapelvic endometriosis Endometriosis occurs in about 8∼15% of reproductive women, of whom 3∼34% show intestinal invasion of the rectosigmoid colon, appendix, ileum, and cecum, in order of decreasing fequency. Symptoms related to bowel involvement manifest as no symptoms at all to complete obstruction of the bowel and depend on the degree of invasion of the endometriosis. Therefore differentiation between cancer and endometriosis of the sigmoid colon and rectum is important, and unnecessary major operations may be avoided. The authors at this hospital, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, report a recent case which presented itself as a intraabdominal mass who was admitted, and who was found to have endometriosis of the rectum and left endometrial cyst who didn`t have any gastrointestinal symptoms of sign.
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