Cosmi Ev

No ORCID on file · 11 papers in corpus · active 1994-2005

Study types

  • article 10
  • other 1

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 11
  • chronic_pelvic_pain 2
  • endometrioma 2
  • dysmenorrhea 1
  • adenomyosis 1
  • dyspareunia 1
article 2005
Increased levels of polychlorobiphenyls in Italian women with endometriosis
Chemosphere ·doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2005.09.022

Endometriosis has been hypothesised to be linked to persistent and toxic organochlorinated chemicals. Dioxins and dioxin-like compounds have in particular been associated with the disease, mainly on the basis of experimental studies. Data i…

article 2004
Dioxin-like compounds and endometriosis: a study on Italian and Belgian women of reproductive age
Toxicology letters ·doi:10.1016/j.toxlet.2004.01.008

Compounds with dioxin-like toxicity are suspected to adversely affect human reproduction even at current background exposures. Endometriosis, a gynecological disorder often associated with infertility, has been hypothesized to be linked to …

article 2004
Intestinal endometriosis without evident pelvic foci: A case report
·doi:10.1016/s1074-3804(04)80487-0
article 2002
Reproductive outcome after laparoscopic treatment of endometriosis.
Clinical and experimental obstetrics & gynecology

PURPOSE OF INVESTIGATION: To evaluate the pregnancy rate after laparoscopic treatment of endometriosis. PATIENTS AND METHODS: 47 infertile women undergoing laparoscopic treatment of endometriosis. RESULTS: rAFS stage was as follows: 11% of …

article 1999
Correlation between endometriosis and pelvic pain
The Journal of the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists ·doi:10.1016/s1074-3804(99)80006-1

Study objectiveTo evaluate the relationship between prevalence and severity of chronic pelvic pain (CPP) and stage, site, and type of endometriosis.DesignProspective, observational study (Canadian Task Force classification II-2).SettingUniv…

article 1998
Chronic ectopic pregnancy. A case report

Chronic ectopic pregnancy is a clinical condition which is often difficult to diagnose, Infact, the symptoms are generally mild, pregnancy tests are often false-negative and sonographic images are similar to other gynecologic diseases, Surg…

article 1997
Ovarian Blood Flow Before and After Conservative Laparoscopic Treatment for Endometrioma
Clinical and experimental obstetrics & gynecology ·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(97)85104-7

To evaluate the vascular changes in ovaries affected by endometriomas 28 women with ovarian endometriosis underwent transvaginal ultrasound with color flow imaging and blood flow analysis of the ovarian artery before and after laparoscopic …

article 1996
Laparoscopic treatment of ovarian endometrioma. One year follow-up.
Clinical and experimental obstetrics & gynecology

Thirty-six women with ultrasonographic diagnosis of ovarian endometrioma (bilateral in nine of them), have been treated laparoscopically. After the surgical procedure the patients were assigned to one of the following regimes: Gn-RH-a for 3…

article 1996
Transvaginal ultrasonographic diagnosis of adenomyosis in female patients suffering from uterine fibromatosis.
Clinical and experimental obstetrics & gynecology

Adenomyosis is an underestimated pathology frequently responsible of unknown origin pelvic pain and uterine enlargement. It is hyperestrinic condition with poor specific symptomatology and preoperative diagnostic tools are very few. The mos…

article 1995
Menstrual patterns, pain symptoms, body mass index and smoking habits in women with endometriosis.
Clinical and experimental obstetrics & gynecology

Epidemiologic studies have investigated the risk factors for endometriosis, but currently the results are still controversial. The aim of this study is to evaluate the incidence of some of the risk factors that have been involved with endom…

other 1994
Serum and peritoneal fluid CA-125 levels in patients with endometriosis
Fertility and Sterility ·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(16)56572-8

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate CA-125 in peritoneal fluid (PF) as an indicator of endometriosis. DESIGN: CA-125 levels in paired serum and PF were determined by the one-step immunoradiometric assay. For peritoneal samples, high dilution of the sam…