Luca Bocciolone

No ORCID on file · 13 papers in corpus · active 1990-2023

Study types

  • article 12
  • other 1

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 13
  • infertility 5
  • chronic_pelvic_pain 4
  • dysmenorrhea 3
  • dyspareunia 2
  • endometrioma 1
article 2023
Endometriosis-Related Ovarian Cancers: Evidence for a Dichotomy in the Histogenesis of the Two Associated Histotypes
Diagnostics ·doi:10.3390/diagnostics13081425

Evidence indicates that different pathways of malignant degeneration underlie the development of endometriosis-associated ovarian tumors of endometrioid and clear cell histotypes. The aim of this study was to compare data from patients affe…

article 1995
Pelvic endometriosis: reproductive and menstrual risk factors at different stages in Lombardy, northern Italy.
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health ·doi:10.1136/jech.49.1.61

AIM: To analyse the relationship between reproductive and menstrual factors and different stages of pelvic endometriosis. METHODS: Between 1987 and 1990 a case-control study of risk factors for pelvic endometriosis was conducted. Cases comp…

article 1994
Contraceptive methods and risk of pelvic endometriosis
Contraception ·doi:10.1016/0010-7824(94)90108-2

The relation between contraceptive methods and risk of pelvic endometriosis has been analyzed in a case-control study. Cases were 376 women with laparoscopically or laparotomically confirmed pelvic endometriosis admitted to a network of Obs…

article 1993
Buserelin acetate in the treatment of pelvic pain associated with minimal and mild endometriosis: a controlled study
Fertility and Sterility ·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(16)55792-6

ObjectiveTo evaluate the changes of pain symptoms induced by buserelin acetate, a gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist, in a group of patients with endometriosis.DesignThirty-five infertile patients with one or more of the following sympt…

article 1992
Buserelin acetate versus expectant management in the treatment of infertility associated with minimal or mild endometriosis: A randomized clinical trial
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology ·doi:10.1016/0002-9378(92)91602-7

ObjectiveWe performed a randomized clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy of intranasal 400 micrograms buserelin three times daily for 6 months versus expectant management in the treatment of infertile women with pelvic endometriosis stage…

other 1992
Is mild endometriosis always a disease?
Human Reproduction ·doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.humrep.a137709

The easy access to the pelvis via laparoscopy has led to an appreciable increase in the diagnosis of endometriosis in women with infertility or chronic pelvic pain. This could suggest a rising incidence of the disease but is probably largel…

article 1992
Laparoscopic aspiration of ovarian endometriomas. Effect with postoperative gonadotropin releasing hormone agonist treatment.

In the period 1988-1990 this prospective study of 33 women with moderate or severe endometriosis who underwent laparoscopy for infertility and/or chronic pelvic pain, was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of aspirating endometriotic cysts …

article 1992
Mononuclear cell beta-endorphin concentration in women with and without endometriosis.
Obstetrics and gynecology

Seventy-five consecutive patients undergoing laparoscopy for chronic pelvic pain and/or infertility were studied to test whether beta-endorphin concentrations in peripheral mononuclear cells differed according to the presence or absence of …

article 1992
Pain symptoms associated with endometriosis.
Obstetrics and gynecology

We evaluated the prevalence and severity of dysmenorrhea, pelvic pain, and deep dyspareunia and their relation to disease stage and site in 124 infertile women with endometriosis and 67 infertile women with normal findings. Seventy-eight en…

article 1991
Peritoneal endometriosis. Morphologic appearance in women with chronic pelvic pain.
The Journal of reproductive medicine

A prospective study analyzed the prevalence and severity of dysmenorrhea, intermenstrual pain and deep dyspareunia in relation to morphologic features of peritoneal disease in 73 consecutive women with endometriosis but no associated pelvic…

article 1991
Reliability of the visual diagnosis of ovarian endometriosis
Fertility and Sterility ·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(16)54744-x

The visual diagnosis of endometrioma at laparotomy in 245 women operated on for ovarian cysts demonstrated a sensitivity of 97%, specificity of 95%, positive and negative predictive value of 98% and 94%, respectively, and overall accuracy o…

article 1990
Endometrial patterns during danazol and buserelin therapy for endometriosis: comparative structural and ultrastructural study.
Obstetrics and gynecology

We studied endometrial structure and ultrastructure in serial biopsy specimens from patients with endometriosis treated with danazol (N = 19) or intranasal buserelin (N = 13) for 6 months. Biopsies were performed before and at 3 and 6 month…

article 1990
Medical treatment of mild endometriosis in infertile women: analysis of a failure
Human Reproduction ·doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.humrep.a137217

The easy access to the pelvis of infertile women by laparoscopy favours early diagnosis of endometriosis in an increasing number of subjects with minimal and mild disease. These initial forms have been associated with and considered as the …