A. Piras

No ORCID on file · 8 papers in corpus
2020
·doi:10.1007/978-3-030-52984-0_16
review 2019
·doi:10.1201/9781351106375-2

Endometriosis is a chronic multifactorial disease. It is caused by the spread of endometrial glands and stroma outside the uterine cavity. The transvaginal ultrasound is considered the first-line, noninvasive diagnostic method for the accur…

2019
·doi:10.1201/9781351106375-4

Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is a pathology of a woman's reproductive organs that originates from an infectious process spread through the cervix to the uterus, fallopian tubes up to the ovaries, and pelvic peritoneum. PID is the main …

observational 2019
Ultrasound in obstetrics & gynecology : the official journal of the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology ·doi:10.1002/uog.20289

OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to evaluate the use of ultrasound (US) soft markers as a first-line imaging tool to raise suspicion of rectosigmoid (RS) involvement in women suspected of having deep endometriosis. METHODS: We include…

2018
·doi:10.1007/978-3-319-71138-6_10
2018
·doi:10.1007/978-3-319-71138-6_13
observational 2017
Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine ·doi:10.1002/jum.14496

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of 2-dimensional (2D) and 3-dimensional (3D) transvaginal ultrasonography (US) in comparison with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for identification of deep infiltrating endometriosis. METHO…

other 2013
Journal of medical ultrasonics (2001) ·doi:10.1007/s10396-013-0514-8

OBJECTIVE: To compare two different methods (manual sampling of the entire cyst and semi-automated spherical sampling from the central part of the cyst) for calculating the mean gray value (MGV) from the cystic content in endometriomas usin…