Lucia Merlino

ORCID: 0000-0002-4281-8308 · 4 papers in corpus
review 2024
Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) ·doi:10.3390/diseases12030048

BACKGROUND: Hemangiomas are aberrant proliferations of blood vessels and the most frequent benign pediatric soft tissue tumors. Although they are common, genital localization is rare. This study aimed to assist doctors in the diagnosis, man…

nonrandomized-trial 2023
International journal of environmental research and public health ·doi:10.3390/ijerph20064686

BACKGROUND: Endometriosis is a chronic, estrogen-dependent, inflammatory disease, whose pivotal symptoms are dysmenorrhea, dyspareunia, and chronic pelvic pain (CPP). Besides the usual medical treatments, recent evidence suggests there are …

review 2022
Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) ·doi:10.3390/ph15121514

Background: Vulvodynia is defined in this international consensus as persistent vulvar pain that occurs for >3 months without an identifiable cause and with several potential associated factors. At present there is no univocal consensus in …

other 2020
Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology ·doi:10.3389/fcimb.2020.00350

Microbiota are microorganismal communities colonizing human tissues exposed to the external environment, including the urogenital tract. The bacterial composition of the vaginal microbiota has been established and is partially related to ob…