The Authors present their experience from 1980 to 2001 in the treatment of 5 cases of endometriosis. The median age is 26.5 years, the symptomatology was the presence of abdominal pain feces mixed with blood in two patients and in three cases a colorectal localization as well as a pelvic endometriosis. In a case the Authors have treated the patient with a surgical approach and in the others with a medical therapy with LH-RH analogs. Pathogenesis, symptomatology, diagnostics, medical and surgical therapy of this disease are also analyzed.