Valerio Mais

To evaluate 1. the prevalence of ultrasonographic diagnosis of deep endometriosis in patients with clinical suspicion and 2. to assess mean gray value (MGV) of nodules of deep endometriosis in different location also evaluating the reproduc…

Two premenopausal women presented with endometrioma and slightly elevated CA 125 plasma levels (42.5 and 39.0 U/ml). After initial evaluation, both patients had an episode of sudden onset of pelvic pain with rapid resolution after a few hou…

OBJECTIVE: To estimate the diagnostic value of transvaginal ultrasonography in the detection of pelvic adhesions in women suspected of having endometriomas at ultrasonography. DESIGN: Prospective observational study. SETTING: Academic Dep…

Abstract Deep pelvic endometriosis is defined as subperitoneal infiltration of endometrial implants in the uterosacral ligaments, rectum, rectovaginal septum, vagina, or bladder. Although laparoscopy and biopsy remain the gold standard for …

OBJECTIVE: To report a case of endometrioid adenocarcinoma that arose in endometriosis mimicking colorectal cancer in a young woman with a Müllerian anomaly. DESIGN: A case report. SETTING: A university hospital. PATIENT(S): A 31-year-ol…

OBJECTIVE: To analyze the relationship between pain and presence, site, and type of adhesions in women with endometriosis. METHODS: This was a multicenter, observational cross-sectional study. Eligible for the study were women with endomet…

L’adenomiosi e caratterizzata dalla presenza di endometrio ectopico (ghiandole e stroma) nello spessore del miometrio, che presenta un’ipertrofia ed iperplasia delle cellule muscolari (1). I sintomi piu frequenti sono: dolore pelvico cronic…

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the clinical efficacy and patient satisfaction of long-term danazol delivered vaginally as treatment for heavy menstrual bleeding. DESIGN: Prospective study (Canadian Task Force classification II-3). SETTING: …

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of bilateral laparoscopic transperitoneal ligation of the ovarian veins in women with symptomatic pelvic varices. DESIGN: Prospective pilot study performed in a small series (Canadian Ta…

Recurrence of ovarian teratomas was evaluated in a randomised trial to determine whether laparoscopic cystectomy had the same efficacy as laparotomy. Forty premenopausal non-pregnant women with a unilateral teratoma no larger than 10 cm wer…

We studied the role of colour Doppler energy (CDE) (or power Doppler) imaging in the differentiation between endometriomas and other adnexal masses in premenopausal non-pregnant women. A total of 170 consecutive patients with persistent adn…

Ovarian cysts are a common cause of hospital admission in several countries. For this reason, and because of the increasing impact of minimal access surgery in clinical practice, a preoperative assessment that offers a reasonable degree of …

Objective To investigate whether different resective procedures might be related to different intensities of postoperative pain and different subjective recovery times following laparoscopic surgery Interventions A total of 60 patients unde…

To demonstrate the advantages of laparoscopic management of endometriomas in comparison with laparotomy, 32 premenopausal nonpregnant women, 18–40 years of age, without acute pelvic symptoms, were prospectively submitted to surgical managem…

Reproductive Medicine Unit Department of obstetrics and Ginecology University of Bologna,Italy. \nDepartment of obstetrics, Ginecology and Reproductive Science Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York, USA

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the role of laparoscopy not only in the diagnosis but also in the therapy of pelvic endometriosis. Ninety-four patients underwent laparoscopy between May 1991 and May 1993. The patients were divi…