An 81-year-old man with an history of Alzheimer's disease, excess weight and type-2 diabetes presented to the emergency department with a two-day history of diffuse abdominal pain. Contrast-enhanced abdominal computed tomography (CT) showed diffuse fluid distention of the small bowel loops indicative of obstruction. In addition, there was a profusion of dilated small bowel diverticula along the mesenteric border (Figure 1A-coronal posterior and B-more anterior views. White stars indicate the diverticula). An isolated jejunal diverticulitis was diagnosed in the right flank (Figure 2A-axial, B-coronal, and C-sagittal views. White stars indicate the distended inflammatory diverticulum and white arrows show the surrounding inflammatory fat stranding). The cause of the small bowel obstruction was a 3 cm large enterolith impacted in the distal ileum (white arrows on Figure 3A-sagittal and B-axial views). A Meckel's diverticulum was also incidentally discovered on the antimesenteric border of the ileum (black arrow on Figure 3C). Small bowel obstruction caused by the release of an enterolith from jejunal diverticulitis in the context of Diffuse Jejuno-Ileal Diverticulosis (DJID) was the final radiological diagnosis. At the time of laparotomy, the enterolith had migrated further than the Meckel's diverticulum, causing opportune dilatation of this diverticulum. Surgeons

In 200 consecutive routine diagnostic laparoscopies, 31 cases (15.5%) of endometriosis were found. Of these 200 cases, 131 patients (65.5%) were referred for laparoscopy because of infertility. In 22 (71.0%) out of 31 patients with endometriosis infertility was the indication for laparoscopy. In the remainder of the patients laparoscopy was performed because of other indications. Half of the patients with endometriosis showed moderate or severe degrees of the disease. Seventy-one percent of the patients were below the age of 29. According to our findings, the presumption that endometriosis is a rare disease in Iran is considered to be erroneous.

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