Paul Caruana

No ORCID on file · 12 papers in corpus
case-report 2010
Gynecologic and obstetric investigation ·doi:10.1159/000292412

A 28-year-old infertile patient with a diagnosis of bilateral distal tubal occlusion made at hysterosalpingography and laparoscopy was found at a second laparoscopy to have bilateral single diverticula in patient tubes. The patient conceive…

nonrandomized-trial 2004
The Journal of the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists ·doi:10.1016/s1074-3804(05)60191-0

STUDY OBJECTIVE: The purpose of the present study was to evaluate a prospective series of consecutive patients with adnexal masses selected with strict preoperative clinical and ultrasonographic criteria. DESIGN: Prospective series of cons…

rct 2000
American journal of obstetrics and gynecology ·doi:10.1067/mob.2000.106817

OBJECTIVE: We sought to evaluate the efficacy of postoperative administration of monophasic, combined, low-dose oral contraceptives on endometrioma recurrence and on persistence-recurrence of associated pain symptoms after laparoscopic trea…

nonrandomized-trial 1999
American journal of obstetrics and gynecology ·doi:10.1016/s0002-9378(99)70247-4

OBJECTIVE: Our purpose was to evaluate the recurrence rate after laparoscopic excision of ovarian endometrioma. STUDY DESIGN: An unrandomized prospective clinical study was performed at 2 tertiary-care centers of 366 patients who had a min…

1998
·doi:10.1016/s1074-3804(05)80355-x
observational 1996
The Journal of the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists ·doi:10.1016/s1074-3804(96)80245-3

From April 1, 1995, to December 31, 1995, 45 patients undergoing diagnostic or operative laparoscopy for infertility, pelvic pain, or both, were found to have endometriosis. No woman had undergone any preoperative medical or surgical treatm…

other 1996
The Journal of the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists ·doi:10.1016/s1074-3804(96)80011-9

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To compare the efficacy of laparoscopy versus microsurgery by laparotomy in the treatment of ovarian endometriomas. DESIGN: Retrospective study with historical controls. SETTING: A tertiary university hospital. PATIENTS:…

observational 1995
Human Reproduction ·doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.humrep.a135815

From 1 July 1990 to 31 January 1994, 55 patients underwent operative laparoscopy for the excision of monolateral endometriomas. None of the patients had previously undergone surgery by laparotomy or laparoscopy. At the time of laparoscopy, …

1995
·doi:10.1016/s1074-3804(05)80478-5
1995
·doi:10.1016/s1074-3804(05)80573-0
other 1994
The Journal of the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists ·doi:10.1016/s1074-3804(05)80932-6

Of 103 women undergoing laparoscopic excision of ovarian endometriomas, 41 patients were prescribed to 3 to 6 months therapy with GnRH analogs or danazol postoperatively and 62 received no additional treatment. No significant difference in …

observational 1993
Acta Europaea fertilitatis

Two-hundred-and-six patients newly diagnosed to have endometriosis at laparoscopy were evaluated in order to see if endometriosis-associated symptoms are proportional to the extent of the disease, as assessed using the Revised American Fert…