Roberta Matrone

No ORCID on file · 3 papers in corpus
2013

SEVERAL MILLION WOMEN from different ethnic and social groups suffer from pelvic endometriosis, which is a complex disorder characterized by the presence of endometrial tissue in ectopic sites outside the uterus. Endometriosis is a chronic …

review 2002
Fertility and sterility ·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(02)03233-8

OBJECTIVE: To discuss current ideas about therapy for endometriosis derived from new observations generated by using molecular biology techniques and in vivo animal models of disease. METHOD(S): The MEDLINE database was reviewed for Englis…

observational 2002
The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism ·doi:10.1210/jcem.87.3.8286

It has been recently reported that serum concentrations of the adipocyte-derived hormone leptin are increased in patients affected by endometriosis. On the basis of these findings, the present study was undertaken to evaluate whether the pr…