A. Pinto da Costa

article 2003

Soluble intercellular adhesion molecule 1 in the peritoneal fluid of patients with endometriosis correlates with the extension of peritoneal implants

European journal of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive biology ·doi:10.1016/s0301-2115(02)00263-4

ObjectiveTo investigate the correlation of the concentrations of soluble intercellular adhesion molecule 1 (sICAM-1) in the peritoneal fluid (PF) with the extent of peritoneal endometriotic lesions and with the presence of red lesions (RLs)…

article 2002

Clinical profile of a Portuguese infertile population with endometriosis

·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(01)03119-3

article 2000

Tumour necrosis factor α concentrations in the peritoneal fluid of infertile women with minimal or mild endometriosis are lower in patients with red lesions only than in patients without red lesions

Human Reproduction ·doi:10.1093/humrep/15.6.1256

Tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNFalpha) of peritoneal fluid is believed to have important pro-inflammatory and angiogenic activities in the complex mechanisms of development of peritoneal endometriotic lesions. We have evaluated the concent…

article 1999

P-166. Peritoneal fluid IL-lβ and TNFα in infertile patients with minimal/mild endometriosis are not different from those with unexplained infertility

·doi:10.1093/humrep/14.suppl_3.224

article 1997

P-152. Is the peritoneal environment of women with minimal/mild endometriosis different from that in other women?

·doi:10.1093/humrep/12.suppl_2.192