GUERRIERO, STEFANO

Abstract OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to assess whether a single determination of the serum cancer antigen 125 (CA-125) level provides additional information to sonography for specific diagnosis of benign adnexal masses in prem…

Chronic pelvic pain (CPP) is a common symptom by that depends a strong impairment of woman’s quality of life. The high incidence of CPP together with the procedures needed to identify the etiology ad to manage the treatment of CPP weight on…

Deep pelvic endometriosis is defined as subperitoneal infiltration of endometrial implants in the uterosacral ligaments, rectum, rectovaginal septum, vagina, or bladder. Although laparoscopy and biopsy remain the gold standard for diagnosis…

Uterine pathology represents one of the most common sources of complaints in women. It may cause pelvic pain, abnormal uterine bleeding or problems related to infertility. On the other hand, endometrial cancer is the most common gynecologic…

Background: The relationship between frequency and severity of pain symptoms and site, stage and morphological characteristics of endometriotic lesions was analysed in a multicentre cross-sectional observational study. Methods: A total of 4…

Ovarian cysts are a common cause of hospital admission in several countries. For this reason, and because of the increasing impact of minimal access surgery in clinical practice, a preoperative assessment that offers a reasonable degree of …

Objective To investigate whether different resective procedures might be related to different intensities of postoperative pain and different subjective recovery times following laparoscopic surgery \n \nInterventions A total of 60 patients…

Objective: To assess the role of transvaginal ultrasonography combined with CA-125 plasma levels in the diagnosis of endometrioma. \n \nDesign: Prospective study with pathological confirmation of the diagnosis. \n \nSetting: Department of…

Endometriomas have a prevalence of 24% among all ovarian cysts. Various \nsonographic features have been proposed to identify endometriomas. Although the \nvisualization of ovarian masses with low-level internal echoes is suggestive for \n…