Francesca Ciccarone
ORCID: 0000-0003-2104-0602
· 10 papers in corpus
other
2025
Low-grade endometrial stromal sarcoma (LG-ESS) can present diagnostic challenges, due to its overlapping morphological features with other uterine mesenchymal tumors. Misdiagnosis rates remain significant, and immunohistochemical data for L…
observational
2025
BACKGROUND: The reality of gynecological patients represents a distinct subgroup of the population in which social and psychological distress can coexist alongside the burden of the disease. "Unmet social needs," including social distress, …
observational
2024
The 2022 Delphi revision of the MUSA (Morphological Uterus Sonographic Assessment) criteria for the ultrasound diagnosis of adenomyosis divides the ultrasound signs for diagnosis into direct and indirect ones, considering the presence of at…
other
2023
During a recent international multidisciplinary meeting (Marathon for Solidarity, November 2022; https://roma.unicatt.it/evt-ultrasound-of-pelvic-anatomy-marathon-for-solidarity), we discussed the methodology to assess the parametrium on ul…
case-report
2023
Tailgut cysts (or rectal cyst hamartomas) are retrorectal developmental cysts. They originate from the tailgut and embryological remnants of neuroenteric canal in the presacral-retrorectal space. At macroscopy, they are usually multilocular…
review
2023
Uterine fibroids have an impact on women's lives due to their high prevalence, physical symptoms, their consequences on patients' emotional and psychological well-being and loss of work productivity. The choice of therapeutical approaches v…
observational
2022
The impact of Coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on Italian Gynaecological Units practice and the compliance and satisfaction with available guidelines/recommendations is unknown. Therefore, a survey was conducted among all Italian Gynaecolo…
other
2022
OBJECTIVE: To develop and validate magnetic resonance (MR) imaging-based radiomics models for high-risk endometrial cancer (EC) prediction preoperatively, to be able to estimate deep myometrial invasion (DMI) and lymphovascular space invasi…
review
2019
PTEN is a tumour suppressor gene, and its loss of function is frequently observed in both heritable and sporadic cancers. It is involved in a great variety of biological processes, including maintenance of genomic stability, cell survival, …
observational
2018
OBJECTIVE: To describe the clinical and ultrasound characteristics of ovarian pure clear cell carcinoma. METHODS: This was a retrospective study involving data from 11 ultrasound centers. From the International Ovarian Tumor Analysis (IOTA…