Marcello Ceccaroni
ORCID: 0000-0002-6797-4876
· 124 papers in corpus
case-report
2014
Bowel endometriosis affects 3-37% of patients with endometriosis, involving more frequently the rectum and the rectosigmoid junction. Severe endometriosis with bowel involvement is often refractory to standard medical therapy. For these rea…
observational
2014
BACKGROUND: Laparoscopic bowel resections for endometriosis are safe and effective but only short-term follow-up has been evaluated. In the present study long-term outcome in terms of intestinal and urinary function, fertility, chronic pain…
other
2013
BACKGROUND: Efforts to improve approaches to the so called "parametrium" with minimally invasive and less dangerous techniques have led to a better study of the anatomic location and composition of that region. Nevertheless, many misconcept…
other
2012
BACKGROUND: Diaphragmatic endometriosis is a rare condition that may cause invalidating epigastric or thoracic pain and catamenial pneumothorax. During the past decades, laparoscopy has been proposed as an optimal tool for diagnosis and sur…
nonrandomized-trial
2012
BACKGROUND: The weight of surgical radicality, together with a lack of anatomical theoretical basis for surgery and inappropriate practical skills, can lead to serious impairments to bladder, rectal, and sexual functions after laparoscopic …
case-report
2012
Diaphragmatic endometriosis is a rare entity, often asymptomatic, which has been described only in small series. It is almost always associated with severe pelvic involvement. The most plausible theory about this condition is based on retro…
case-report
2011
STUDY DESIGN: Case report. OBJECTIVE: To show by case presentation, the potential for endometriosis to infiltrate the somatic nerves causing lower extremity neuropathic pain and to discuss possible surgical remedy and the effectiveness of …
other
2011
OBJECTIVES: To describe the sonographic and clinical features of abdominal wall endometriosis (AWE), a frequently misdiagnosed condition. METHODS: This was a retrospective study of 21 consecutive women with pathologically proven endometrio…
2011
case-report
2010
observational
2010
A detailed picture of the prevalence and distribution of abdomino-pelvic endometriosis in more that 1,500 cases of endometriosis stage IV is presented. A great prevalence of endometriotic localizations in the posterior pelvic compartment co…
other
2010
BACKGROUND: Ileocecal endometriosis is a very rare entity, and its diagnosis is usually made during surgery for other endometriosis sites or, rarely, because of direct complications of ileal involvement. This study was designed to analyze p…
review
2010
PURPOSE: Endometriotic or fibrotic involvement of sacral plexus and pudendal and sciatic nerves may be quite frequently the endopelvic cause of ano-genital and pelvic pain. Feasibility of a laparoscopic transperitoneal approach to the somat…
2010
other
2010
2010
case-report
2010
other
2009
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the efficacy of discoid resection for the treatment of deep infiltrating endometriosis and whether it could be considered to be a valid alternative to the rectosigmoid segmental resection. DESIGN: Case-control study.…
observational
2009
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the short- and long-term outcomes of laparoscopic colorectal resection for endometriosis. DESIGN AND PATIENTS: This study included 357 consecutive patients who underwent colorectal resection. We evaluated intraoperat…
observational
2009
BACKGROUND: Complete removal of all visible lesions is considered the adequate treatment of pelvic endometriosis in order to reduce recurrence. Laparoscopic colorectal resection of bowel endometriosis is still challenging. A large series is…
observational
2009
OBJECTIVE: To study severe endometriosis as a cause of pelvic pain, which represents one of the most challenging disorders in gynecology. DESIGN: Retrospective study. SETTING: Teaching hospital. PATIENT(S): A total of 1,363 women with se…
nonrandomized-trial
2009
BACKGROUND: The purpose of the study was to determine the influence of bowel endometriosis on fertility, and to study whether its removal improves fecundity in women with endometriosis-associated infertility. METHODS: Three groups of infer…
other
2007
AIM: Endometriosis is the presence of endometrial tissue, including endometrial glands and stroma, outside the uterine cavity. The incidence of endometriosis in the general population is almost unknown, because it varies between 1% and 50%,…
nonrandomized-trial
2006
BACKGROUND: Little is known about the morbidity associated with laparoscopic complete excision of endometriosis in terms of urinary, digestive and sexual function. METHODS: We performed a prospective non-randomized study in 45 patients wit…