Francesca Falcone

The vast majority of endometriosis is located in the pelvis and is reported to represent 96.4% of all lesion locations. This can include the ovary with or without posterior cul-de-sac obliteration (1). Surgical management of pelvic endometr…

OBJECTIVE: To report our 3-year institutional experience of total laparoscopic (TL) segmental sigmoid colon/rectal resection for treatment of bowel endometriosis (BE). DESIGN: The TrEnd trial is a single-institutional retrospective/prospec…

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effectiveness of the Dual Wavelength Laser System (DWLS) diode laser on the treatment of ovarian endometrioma (OMA), with ablation and vaporization of the cystic capsule without performing the stripping tech…

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To investigate the postoperative morbidity of laparoscopic hysterectomy (LH) for endometriosis/adenomyosis in terms of operative outcomes and complications. DESIGN: Retrospective multicentric cohort study. SETTING: Eight …

STUDY OBJECTIVES: To assess the value of combined transvaginal/transabdominal ultrasonographic evaluation performed by experienced examiners for deep infiltrating endometriosis (DIE) lesions of the retrocervical (torus uterinus and uterosac…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate effectiveness and reproducibility of qualitative and quantitative near-infrared indocyanine green (NIR-ICG) analyses as a tool for anastomotic perfusion assessment after full-thickness bowel resection for rectosigmoid…

PURPOSE OF INVESTIGATION: Aim of the study was to evaluate the possible involvement of zinc in the complex pathogenic process behind the onset and perpetuation of endometriotic lesions. To study the level of zinc serum between a group of pa…