Alessandro Fasciani

Introduction: Uterine fibroids and ovarian endometriosis are the most frequent gynecological pathologies. 1 , 2 The gold standard treatment for both is laparoscopy which almost always involves hospitalization with overnight accommodation, h…

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Endometriosis is increasingly collecting worldwide attention due to its medical complexity and social impact. The European community has identified this as a “social disease”. A large amount of information comes from scientists, yet several…

Objective To develop a clinical index that will positively predict the presence of endometriosis. Design Prospective single-center observational study. Setting: A hospital-based institute. Patients 120 patients affected by chronic pelvic pa…

CONTEXT: Somatostatin plays a role in physiological and pathological cell proliferation and angiogenesis. Five subtypes of somatostatin receptors have been identified, and the therapeutic use of somatostatin receptor-selective agonists has …

Abstract\n\nEndometriosis is a chronic, multifactorial, polygenic gynecological disease. Endometrium has a high angiogenic potential and endometriotic lesions involve large areas with a rich blood supply. Angiogenesis is controlled by numer…

Patients with endometriosis are characterized by the ability of the endometrium to implant and by the peritoneal response to the tissue; angiogenic factors may play a significant role in the aetiology of endometriosis supporting the implant…