Litta P
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· 23 papers in corpus
· active 1998-2019
Study types
- article 11
- other 4
- review 2
- letter 1
- meta-analysis 1
Condition tags
- endometriosis 17
- chronic_pelvic_pain 3
- bladder_endometriosis 3
- die_deep_infiltrating 2
- dyspareunia 2
- endometrioma 2
- infertility 2
- dysmenorrhea 2
Top journals
Frequent coauthors
- Pietro Litta 17
- Carlo Saccardi 11
- Gizzo S 7
- Noventa M 7
- Quaranta M 7
- Vitagliano A 5
- Stefano Angioni 4
- D'Antona D 4
- Marco Noventa 4
- Michela Quaranta 4
article
2019
Ovarian endometriomas are common manifestations of endometriosis. Surgical excision has been shown to potentially decrease ovarian reserves. In this prospective study, we included 81 patients with ovarian endometriosis. 40 were treated with…
article
2018
Growing evidence is demonstrating that several peptides (corticotrophin-releasing factor, urocortins, ghrelin), proteins (leptin, adiponectin) and growth factors (vascular endothelial growth factor; epidermal growth factor family of growth …
2017
The lethality of epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) may be due to common misconceptions regarding etiology and the absence of effective screening and early diagnostic tools. Reviews of histopathological surveys performed on the resected fallop…
review
2017
Bladder endometriosis is a specific form of endometriosis characterized by the presence of endometrial glands and stroma in the detrusor muscle. Such disease may involve different sites of the bladder, most frequently the base and the dome,…
other
2016
To describe the pre-surgical and post-surgical outcomes at one year in terms of recurrence of lower urinary tract symptoms, quality of life, and sexual function of a transurethral and laparoscopic combined approach in the treatment of bladd…
2016
Salpingectomy is largely used in case of hydrosalpinx in infertile women scheduled for assisted reproductive technologies (ART), whereas there is no consensus on its role in absence of hydrosalpinx. The current is a systematic literature re…
other
2015
PURPOSE: Restoring the anatomical relationship and preserving the function of pelvic organs represent the ideal outcome of surgical intervention in patients suffering from endometriosis-related infertility. The aim of the study was to compa…
letter
2015
It was with great interest that we read the manuscript by Reid et al.1, published recently in the Journal, which proposed a new modified transvaginal ultrasound (TVS) technique (office gel sonovaginography, SVG) with the intention of improv…
2015
BackgroundAim of the study was to investigate whether menstrual cycle length may be considered as a surrogate measure of reproductive health, improving the accuracy of biochemical/sonographical ovarian reserve test in estimating the reprodu…
2015
Bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (BSO) in carriers of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations is widely recommended as part of a risk-reduction strategy for ovarian or breast cancer due to an underlying genetic predisposition. BSO is also performed as a t…
other
2015
meta-analysis
2015
OBJECTIVE: To collate all available evidence with respect to ultrasound techniques in the management of deep pelvic endometriosis (DPE) and compare the sensitivity and specificity of each to determine the most suitable site-specific method.…
article
2013
Operative laparoscopy is the gold standard in the treatment of endometriotic ovarian cysts. Excisional surgery is the best technique to prevent recurrences and improve symptoms but it may result in ovarian reserve damage due to the removal …
review
2013
Uterine leiomyomas (fibroids or myomas) are benign tumors of uterus and clinically apparent in a large part of reproductive aged women. Clinically, they present with a variety of symptoms: excessive menstrual bleeding, dysmenorrhoea and int…
article
2012
BackgroundWhen endometriosis infiltrates more than 5 mm beneath the peritoneum it is called deeply infiltrating endometriosis and may involve the bladder. Only 1-2% of women with endometriosis have urinary involvement, mainly in the bladder…
article
2012
OBJECTIVE: To compare clinical evaluation, transvaginal sonography (TVS), saline contrast sonovaginography (SCSV) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the diagnosis of posterior deep pelvic endometriosis (DPE). METHODS: Women suspected o…
article
2012
ObjectiveTo delineate the panel of expression of phosphoinositide-specific phospholipase C (PI-PLC) signaling enzymes in normal endometrium and in endometriosis.DesignClinical/experimental study.SettingUniversity.Patient(s)Healthy donor wom…
article
2010
article
2009
Endometrial curettings from a cohort of 24 women with endometriosis were compared with matched biopsies from 14 healthy, fertile women and examined for ultrastructural changes and the secretion of glycans bound by the lectin from Dolichos b…
article
2009
Examination of 12 paired peritoneal ectopic and eutopic endometria for histochemical binding of Dolichos biflorus agglutinin, normally found in the mid-late secretory part of the cycle, showed a failure of lectin binding in 9 of 11 secretor…
other
2009
article
2008
Following a study in a baboon model of endometriosis, we here describe the morphology of ectopic peritoneal lesions in the human to examine the effects of an ectopic site on glandular structure and function. Ectopic biopsies from 17 women w…
article
1998
The recurrence of endometriosis varies from 6% to 10% and, among the non-gynaecological sites, the bowel is involved in 12%-37%. Various symptoms, such as dysmenorrhea, dyspareunia, chronic pelvic pain, diarrhoea, constipation, cyclic recta…