The peritoneal organs of 40 patients with pelvic endometriosis were scanned for endometriosis in this study by the videolaparoscopic method to verify the relation of their complaints with lesions found in the gastrointestinal tract. Twenty one of these patients who had gastrointestinal signs and symptoms and 19 who did not, were evaluated in order to establish associations and correlations between clinical parameters pointing to endometriotic lesions and sites of these lesions in each segment of the gastrointestinal tract as well as to correlate between the staging of the endometriosis and intestinal injury. Research significantly confirmed the correlation between gastrointestinal symptoms as a consequence of lesions in the gastrointestinal tract. Gastrointestinal signs and symptoms, significantly related with gynecological endometriosis in the rectum and sigmoid segment and/or ileum and with injury of the gastrointestinal tract, were cyclic tenesmus, cyclic colic pain, cyclic obstipation, cyclic diarrhea, acyclic pain, thin stools and cyclic intestinal bleeding. The ASRM l996 Stage IV correlated with the presence of endometriosis in the gastrointestinal tract. The study demonstrates the positive correlation of gastrointestinal and gynecological signs and symptoms and the staging of the gynecological disease with gastrointestinal injury from the disease.
Endometriosis; Gastrointestinal Tract; Laparoscopy; Clinical Diagnosis
