Until recently, surgical treatment of a benign adnexal mass implied a laparotomy. In recent years, the development of laparoscopic surgery, as well as ultrasound-guided aspiration techniques, have significantly modified the treatment option…
Ureteral obstruction due to endometriosis is an infrequent condition which can be asymptomatic for a long time. Irreversible loss of renal function may result in cases with delayed diagnosis. Our report concerns a case of unilateral hydrone…
Eighteen patients affected by laparoscopically confirmed endometriosis were randomly assigned to three different schedules of treatment with gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist (GnRH-a) (goserelin depot formulation 3.6 mg) every 28 days …
Seriated ferritin assays were carried out on 95 patients affected by primitive ovarian epithelial tumour over a period of three years (1979/82), by radioimmunometric assay for human spleen ferritin. Ferritin was elevated in endometrioid tum…
Association of serum alphafetoprotein (alpha FP), human chorionic gonadotropin beta-subunit (beta-HCG), carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and ferritin (FER) was studied in a group of 72 patients with epithelial ovarian cancer 15 days after sur…