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Case Report
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Article history: Endometriosis is the presence of endometrial tissue outside of the uterus. It is common in
Received 11 July 2016 women of childbearing age, and is frequently located in the pelvic cavity. Approximately
Accepted 14 August 2016 10% of endometriosis cases occur in extrapelvic locations. However there are few reports
Available online 8 September 2016
of gastric wall endometriosis. Here, we report a rare case of endometriosis in post-
menopausal woman. The patient presented with epigastric pain. The investigations
Keywords: included ultrasound (US) and contrast enhanced computed tomography (CECT) where
Endometriosis
she was diagnosed with gastric wall neoplasm. She underwent surgery where the mass
Postmenopausal
Computed tomography
was excised. The histopathological examination surprisingly came with the diagnosis of
Laparotomy gastric wall endometriosis.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrnm.2016.08.005
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This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Fig. 1. CECT of the abdomen and pelvis in coronal plan, shows gastric Fig. 3. CECT of the abdomen and pelvis in coronal reformat, shows left
antral wall mass lesion with inhomogeneous enhancement. lower ureteric stone with subsequent moderate hydroureteronephrosis.
a benign chronic gynaecological disorder which may be period. The prevalence of pelvic endometriosis is
complicated by infertility. The disease is oestrogen- approximately 6–10% [1]. However the presence of
dependent that usually affects women in childbearing extrapelvic endometriosis is seen only in 10% of all cases.
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