BACKGROUND: Borderline ovarian tumors (BOTs) require meticulous surgical staging. While conventional multiport laparoscopy (CML) remains the standard minimally invasive approach, vaginal natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (vNOT…
OBJECTIVE: Recent studies reported that endometriosis could behave as a neoplasmatic process. The purpose of this study is to investigate the family risk of ovarian, colon and prostate cancer in women with endometriosis. STUDY DESIGN: A se…
OBJECTIVE: Few studies examining the association of endometriosis with the risk of breast cancer. Our goal was to investigate the familial risk of breast cancer in women with endometriosis. DESIGN: Retrospective study. SETTING: University…
Although endometriosis is a common disease in women of childbearing age, intestinal endometriosis is unusual and may cause clinically significant complications. We report a 35-year-old woman with endometriosis involving the ileocaecal junct…
INTRODUCTION: Bowel resection is now considered the "gold standard" treatment for severe endometriosis infiltrating the bowel. Laparoscopic colorectal resection can be considered a safe option in order to reduce surgical trauma and complica…