Minerva chirurgica

AIM: The aim of this paper was to assess the risk factors for endometrioma recurrence in women underwent laparoscopic surgery for endometrioma. METHODS: This retrospective designed study included 113 cases that underwent laparoscopic surger…

AIM: Pelvic pain affects 4% to 39% of women and accounts for 10-40% of all outpatient gynecologic visits. The etiology of painful endometriosis-related has not been fully delineated. No studies have been published concerning gluten-free die…

Treatment of acute colorectal malignant obstruction, by using self-expandable metallic stents is useful for both palliative and decompressive therapy before the final surgical treatment. In this case, the patient may be benefit from a perio…

In literature an elevated number of isolated cases of endometriosis in post-laparoscopic scar or laparoscopic trocar tract are described. Actually no theory can completely account for endometriosis, and it is most likely that a combination …

BACKGROUND: Early laparoscopy plays a very important role in the diagnosis and treatment of uncertain surgical diseases. Its use is not very clear, in part because it is a very new technique and secondly because its application in emergency…

Regarding a case of rectal endometriosis, presenting with cyclic menstrual rectal bleeding, the authors discuss the clinical and treatment aspects of such a rare pathology. History was sufficient to indicate the diagnosis which was confirme…

The authors starting from the description of a clinical case of intestinal endometriosis, who underwent emergency surgery for acute intestinal obstruction, take into consideration the incidence, the pathogenesis and the pathological charact…

The term endometriosis means the presence in an ectopic site of normal functioning endometrial tissue, the ectopic endometrial tissue, as the normal uterine mucosa, undergo hormonal stimulation and follow the proliferative and functional ch…

Intestinal endometriosis can rarely show itself bowel obstruction. An accurate anamnesis, radiological tests and endoscopy are of some use for correct diagnosis. Frequently however, differential diagnosis with others of pathology is not pos…

A case of sigmoid-rectal endometriosis prompted the authors to focus attention on the question of indications for surgery and operative tactics in intestinal endometriosis. In this case, the presence of a pelvic mass which could not be cut …

The Authors report a case of Castleman's disease in a 45-year-old woman. She was admitted to hospital because of a thrombophlebitis of the left lower limb. An abdominal echotomography showed evidence of a mass with a diameter of about 6 cm …

On the basis of two recently treated cases of endometriosis, the main aspects of this unusual pathology are examined; in particular its aetiopathogenesis, clinical picture and treatment still provide reasons of uncertainty. On the basis of …

Endometriosis on a caesarean scar is a well-known, though not frequent event. The lesion generally presents as a painful nodule of the abdominal wall during the menstrual cycle. Pain cyclicity is a useful sign for diagnosis. Treatment consi…

The clinical, anatomopathological and radiological data concerning adenomyoma of the gall bladder are considered. The differential features of the pain in patients suffering from adenomyoma and calculosis are reviewed and a line of therapeu…

Bilateral hysteroadnexectomy and rectosigmoid resection were successfully employed in a case of acute intestinal occlusion due to endometriotic rectosigmoid stenosis in a 36-yr-old woman. The endometriotic character of the stenosis was only…

Reference to the literature is made in an account of extragenital external endometriosis, with particular attention to intestinal varieties. A case of ovarian and appendicular endometriosis with the clinical picture of acute abdomen is pres…