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ORCID: 0000-0003-4208-9691 · 10 papers in corpus
review 2025
Diagnostics ·doi:10.3390/diagnostics15162001

Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) encompasses a broad range of infection-induced inflammatory disorders of the female upper genital tract, commonly caused by ascending sexually transmitted infections. Diagnosis is often challenging because …

other 2025
Insights into imaging ·doi:10.1186/s13244-025-01965-z

PURPOSE: This review aims to summarize the current applications of quantitative MRI biomarkers in the staging, treatment response evaluation, and prognostication of endometrial (EC) and cervical cancer (CC). By focusing on functional imagin…

review 2022
International journal of environmental research and public health ·doi:10.3390/ijerph19105840

Uterine adenomyosis is a common benign condition defined by the presence of heterotopic endometrial glands and stroma within the myometrium. Adenomyosis is often related to infertility and other adverse pregnancy outcomes. Modern imaging te…

other 2022
Cancers ·doi:10.3390/cancers14235881

High- and low-risk endometrial carcinoma (EC) differ in whether or not a lymphadenectomy is performed. We aimed to develop MRI-based radio-genomic models able to preoperatively assess lymph-vascular space invasion (LVSI) and discriminate be…

other 2021
International journal of environmental research and public health ·doi:10.3390/ijerph18199949

Structured reporting systems for endometriotic disease are gaining a central role in diagnostic imaging: our aim is to evaluate applicability and the feasibility of the recent ENZIAN score (2020) assessed by MRI. A total of 60 patients with…

review 2021
Minerva obstetrics and gynecology ·doi:10.23736/S2724-606X.21.04782-1

INTRODUCTION: Endometriosis affects 10%-15% of women in reproductive age and may cause no-cyclic chronic pelvic pain, dysmenorrhea, dyspareunia, urinary tract symptoms, and it is frequently associated with infertility. The peak of incidence…

case-report 2017
Case reports in radiology ·doi:10.1155/2017/2520989

Uterine fibroids, the most common benign tumor in women of childbearing age, may cause symptoms including pelvic pain, menorrhagia, dysmenorrhea, pressure, urinary symptoms, and infertility. Various approaches are available to treat symptom…

diagnostic-accuracy 2017
La Radiologia medica ·doi:10.1007/s11547-017-0729-7

PURPOSE: Real-time virtual sonography (RVS) allows displaying and synchronizing real-time US and multiplanar reconstruction of MRI images. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the feasibility and ability of RVS to assess adenomyosis si…

observational 2017
Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology ·doi:10.1016/j.jmig.2017.10.033

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the sacral nerve root features by the means of magnetic resonance imaging-diffusion tensor imaging (MRI-DTI) tractography in women with endometriosis and/or adenomyosis, and to analyze the correlations among DTI abno…

other 2013
European radiology ·doi:10.1007/s00330-013-2981-0

OBJECTIVE: To prospectively evaluate microstructural abnormalities in sacral nerve roots in women affected by chronic pelvic pain associated with endometriosis. METHODS: We enrolled 30 women with an ultrasound diagnosis of endometriosis an…