Caruana P

No ORCID on file · 11 papers in corpus · active 1993-2022

Study types

  • article 6
  • other 3

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 9
  • endometrioma 4
  • dysmenorrhea 2
  • chronic_pelvic_pain 1
  • dyspareunia 1
2022
Nano-Based Approved Pharmaceuticals for Cancer Treatment: Present and Future Challenges.
Biomolecules ·doi:10.3390/biom12060784

Cancer is one of the main causes of death worldwide. To date, and despite the advances in conventional treatment options, therapy in cancer is still far from optimal due to the non-specific systemic biodistribution of antitumor agents. The …

2022
Neural plasticity of the uterus: New targets for endometrial cancer?
Women's health (London, England) ·doi:10.1177/17455057221095537

Endometrial carcinoma is the most common gynecological malignancy in Western countries and is expected to increase in the following years because of the high index of obesity in the population. Recently, neural signaling has been recognized…

other 2004
Laparoscopic excision of adnexal masses
The Journal of the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists ·doi:10.1016/s1074-3804(05)60191-0

STUDY OBJECTIVE: The purpose of the present study was to evaluate a prospective series of consecutive patients with adnexal masses selected with strict preoperative clinical and ultrasonographic criteria. DESIGN: Prospective series of cons…

article 2000
Postoperative administration of monophasic combined oral contraceptives after laparoscopic treatment of ovarian endometriomas: A prospective, randomized trial
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology ·doi:10.1067/mob.2000.106817

ObjectiveWe sought to evaluate the efficacy of postoperative administration of monophasic, combined, low-dose oral contraceptives on endometrioma recurrence and on persistence-recurrence of associated pain symptoms after laparoscopic treatm…

article 1999
Recurrence of ovarian endometrioma after laparoscopic excision
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology ·doi:10.1016/s0002-9378(99)70247-4

ObjectiveOur purpose was to evaluate the recurrence rate after laparoscopic excision of ovarian endometrioma.Study designAn unrandomized prospective clinical study was performed at 2 tertiary-care centers of 366 patients who had a minimum o…

article 1996
Endometriosis-associated dysmenorrhea is not related to typical or atypical peritoneal implants
The Journal of the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists ·doi:10.1016/s1074-3804(96)80245-3

From April 1, 1995, to December 31, 1995, 45 patients undergoing diagnostic or operative laparoscopy for infertility, pelvic pain, or both, were found to have endometriosis. No woman had undergone any preoperative medical or surgical treatm…

other 1996
Laparoscopically assisted vaginal hysterectomy as an alternative to abdominal hysterectomy. A pilot study
Gynecologic and obstetric investigation ·doi:10.1159/000291974

Laparoscopically assisted vaginal hysterectomy (LAVH) allows for conversion of some abdominal hysterectomies to a vaginal route. LAVH may be particularly useful when adnexectomy is indicated. In this study the authors evaluate the results o…

article 1996
Laparoscopy versus microsurgery by laparotomy for excision of ovarian cysts in patients with moderate or severe endometriosis
The Journal of the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists ·doi:10.1016/s1074-3804(96)80011-9

Study objectiveTo compare the efficacy of laparoscopy versus microsurgery by laparotomy in the treatment of ovarian endometriomas.DesignRetrospective study with historical controls.SettingA tertiary university hospital.PatientsOne hundred t…

other 1996
The impact of preoperative gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist treatment on laparoscopic excision of ovarian endometriotic cysts
Fertility and Sterility ·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(16)58346-0

OBJECTIVE: To compare surgical performance and recurrence rates in patients submitted to laparoscopy for endometrioma excision following GnRH agonist (GnRH-a) treatment versus no preoperative medical treatment. DESIGN: Controlled clinical …

article 1995
Laparoscopic findings after transvaginal ultrasound-guided aspiration of ovarian endometriomas
Human Reproduction ·doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.humrep.a135815

From 1 July 1990 to 31 January 1994, 55 patients underwent operative laparoscopy for the excision of monolateral endometriomas. None of the patients had previously undergone surgery by laparotomy or laparoscopy. At the time of laparoscopy, …

article 1993
Evaluation of the correlation between endometriosis extent, age of the patients and associated symptomatology.
Acta Europaea fertilitatis

Two-hundred-and-six patients newly diagnosed to have endometriosis at laparoscopy were evaluated in order to see if endometriosis-associated symptoms are proportional to the extent of the disease, as assessed using the Revised American Fert…