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Here, we present a 68-year-old woman who was admitted under the colorectal service with a 1\u00a0month history of mild left iliac fossa pain, with computed tomography (CT) demonstrating complicated sigmoid diverticulitis. Progress CTs, however, demonstrated a progressively enlarging left iliac fossa mass, with air fluid levels, densely adherent to the sigmoid colon. The decision was eventually made to perform a laparoscopy, which demonstrated a left tubo-ovarian abscess communicating with the uterus and sigmoid colon, illustrating a colo-uterine fistula. Open resection of the sigmoid colon and uterus was performed and the patient recovered uneventfully. 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