MAIS, VALERIO

Ovarian cysts are a common cause of hospital admission in several countries. For this reason, and because of the increasing impact of minimal access surgery in clinical practice, a preoperative assessment that offers a reasonable degree of …

Objectives: To evaluate the efficacy of gestrinone versus leuprolide acetate (LA) in improving pelvic pain in women with endometriosis and to compare their effects on bone mineral density and serum lipid profile. Design: Multicenter, double…

Objective To investigate whether different resective procedures might be related to different intensities of postoperative pain and different subjective recovery times following laparoscopic surgery \n \nInterventions A total of 60 patients…

Objective: To assess the role of transvaginal ultrasonography combined with CA-125 plasma levels in the diagnosis of endometrioma. \n \nDesign: Prospective study with pathological confirmation of the diagnosis. \n \nSetting: Department of…

Endometriomas have a prevalence of 24% among all ovarian cysts. Various \nsonographic features have been proposed to identify endometriomas. Although the \nvisualization of ovarian masses with low-level internal echoes is suggestive for \n…

We have evaluated the prevalence of endometriosis in selected gynaecological conditions requiring surgery. Eligible for the study were women with primary or secondary sterility, chronic pelvic pain, fibroids or benign ovarian cysts requirin…