Ezio Fulcheri

BACKGROUND: The 5-HT(4) receptor agonist prucalopride enhances large intestinal contractility by facilitating acetylcholine release through activation of 5-HT(4) receptors on cholinergic nerves and is effective in patients with constipation…

This study analyzed by immunofluorescence staining the sympathetic innervation in the bowel adjacent to the endometriotic lesion and in the healthy tissue at the border of the resected specimen. Sympathetic nerve fibers are significantly re…

We report on a patient with a bowel endometriotic nodule that was hypointense on both T1- and T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); histologic examination revealed that the MRI appearance of the nodule was due to the presence of ext…

UNLABELLED: Bowel endometriosis opens a new frontier for the gynecologist, as it forces the understanding of a new anatomy, a new physiology, and a new pathology. Although some women with bowel endometriosis may be asymptomatic, the majorit…

BACKGROUND: It has recently been suggested that aromatase inhibitors may effectively reduce pain symptoms related to the presence of endometriosis both in postmenopausal women and in subjects of reproductive age. AIMS: This study aims to ev…

This open-label prospective study evaluated the efficacy of letrozole (2.5 mg/day) combined with norethisterone acetate (2.5 mg/day) in the treatment of pain symptoms related to the presence of rectovaginal endometriosis. The treatment sign…

This prospective study evaluated the efficacy of transvaginal ultrasonography combined with water-contrast in the rectum (RWC-TVS) in the diagnosis of rectal infiltration in 35 women with rectovaginal endometriosis; ultrasonographic finding…

This prospective study aims to evaluate the efficacy of multislice computed tomography combined with colon distension by water enteroclysis (MSCTe) in determining the presence and depth of bowel endometriotic lesions. Ninety-eight women wit…

BACKGROUND: This study aims to evaluate the completeness of full thickness disc resection in the treatment of deep endometriotic bowel lesions. METHODS: This study comprised 16 women with bowel endometriotic lesions requiring segmental rese…

Previous studies have suggested that the proportion of left ovarian endometriotic cysts is significantly higher than the expected 50% but that ovarian dermoid cysts have a predisposition to a right lateral distribution. We studied the distr…

p0.09). The meanSD adhesion severities of control, oral and intraperitoneal groups were 1.60.91, 0.250.42 and 1.31.51, respectively (p0.009). The oral group had fewer and less severe adhesions that were statistically significant in all site…

BACKGROUND: Our aim was to investigate the relationships between gastrointestinal symptoms and histological findings in women with bowel endometriosis. METHODS: The gastrointestinal symptoms of 362 women with endometriosis were classified a…

We assessed the immunohistochemical expression of p53 and c-erbB-2 oncoproteins in 13 ovarian endometrioid adenocarcinomas arising from endometriosis (group 1) and compared the findings with 15 otherwise similar cases without associated end…

ObjectiveTo evaluate the prevalence of epithelial abnormalities in cystic ovarian endometriosis.MethodsIn this observational study, the specimens of 388 consecutive patients undergoing a surgical procedure whose final diagnosis included cys…

The case of a 35 years old woman affected by endometriosis located inside the spinal canal in the extradural space at the level of the third left lumbar root, and developing through the corresponding foramen into the paraspinal muscles, is …