While sigmoidoscopy is primarily a gastrointestinal procedure, it holds significant importance in gynecology for several reasons. Firstly, symptoms like pelvic pain, rectal bleeding, and altered bowel habits can overlap between gastrointestinal and gynecological conditions. Secondly, gynecological cancers such as ovarian or endometrial cancer may present with gastrointestinal symptoms. Thus, a sigmoidoscopy can help differentiate between gynecological and gastrointestinal causes of these symptoms.
