The peritonealorgans of 40 patients with pelvic endometriosis were scanned for endometriosisin this study by the videolaparoscopic method to verify the relation of theircomplaints with lesions found in the gastrointestinal tract. Twenty one of thesepatients who had gastrointestinal signs and symptoms and 19 who did not, wereevaluated in order to establish associations and correlations between clinicalparameters pointing to endometriotic lesions and sites of these lesions in eachsegment of the gastrointestinal tract as well as to correlate between the stagingof the endometriosis and intestinal injury. Research significantly confirmedthe correlation between gastrointestinal symptoms as a consequence of lesionsin the gastrointestinal tract. Gastrointestinal signs and symptoms, significantlyrelated with gynecological endometriosis in the rectum and sigmoid segment and/orileum and with injury of the gastrointestinal tract, were cyclic tenesmus, cycliccolic pain, cyclic obstipation, cyclic diarrhea, acyclic pain, thin stools andcyclic intestinal bleeding. The ASRM l996 Stage IV correlated with the presenceof endometriosis in the gastrointestinal tract. The study demonstrates the positivecorrelation of gastrointestinal and gynecological signs and symptoms and thestaging of the gynecological disease with gastrointestinal injury from the disease.
