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Article History

Received: 8 April 2020

Revised: 31 May 2020

Accepted: 7 August 2020

First Online: 26 August 2020

Compliance with ethical standards

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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Pr Pascal Rousset (MD, PhD).

: The authors of this manuscript declare no relationships with any companies whose products or services may be related to the subject matter of the article.

: One of the authors has significant statistical expertise: Pr Jean-Christophe Lega (MD, PhD).

: Written informed consent was waived by the Institutional Review Board.

: Institutional Review Board approval was obtained.

: Some study subjects included between June 2012 and July 2013 in this paper have been previously reported/included in “Bowel endometriosis: preoperative diagnostic accuracy of 3.0-T MR enterography—initial results. Rousset P, Peyron N, Charlot M, Chateau F, Golfier F, Raudrant D, Cotte E, Isaac S, Réty F, Valette PJ. Radiology. 2014 Oct;273(1):117–24.”However, in this last paper, only lesions located above the recto-sigmoid junction were studied, while in the present paper, only lesions of the rectum or the recto-sigmoid junction were studied.

: • retrospective• diagnostic study/observational• performed at one institution