Luigi Frati

No ORCID on file · 5 papers in corpus · active 2011-2018

Study types

  • article 4
  • case-report 1

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 4
  • endometrioma 3
article 2018
European review for medical and pharmacological sciences ·doi:10.26355/eurrev_201812_16549

OBJECTIVE: Endometriosis is a debilitating disease characterized by chronic inflammation. The transporter multidrug resistance-associated protein 4 (MRP4/ABCC4) is expressed in human endometrial tissue; it is overexpressed in ectopic endome…

article 2013
Disease markers ·doi:10.1155/2013/984641

BACKGROUND: Surgical excision of ovarian endometriomas in patients desiring pregnancy has recently been criticized because of the risk of damage to healthy ovarian tissue and consequent reduction of ovarian reserve. A correct diagnosis in c…

article 2013

Copyright © 2013 Emanuela Anastasi et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is…

article 2013
Journal of ovarian research ·doi:10.1186/1757-2215-6-44

BACKGROUND: Endometriosis is frequently associated with high levels of CA125. This marker is therefore not useful for discriminating ovarian endometrioma from ovarian malignancy. The aim of this study was to establish a panel of complementa…

case-report 2011
International journal of molecular sciences ·doi:10.3390/ijms12010627

Neoplasms of the ovary present an increasing challenge to the physician. Neoplastic ovarian cysts can resemble endometriomas in ultrasound imaging and need to be carefully considered in the differential diagnosis. We report the case of a wo…