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Proposal of a modified transcervical endometrial resection (TCER) technique for menorrhagia treatment. Feasibility, efficacy, and patients’ acceptability

Pietro Litta, Luigi Nappi, Pasquale Florio, Luca Mencaglia, more

Gynecological Surgery > 2014 > 11 > 3 > 165-171

The aim of this study is to evaluate the feasibility, efficacy, safeness, and patients’ acceptability of a modified transcervical endometrial resection (TCER) technique for the treatment of menorrhagia. Eighty-four premenopausal women with menorrhagia after careful investigation and 2 months therapy with GnRHa underwent a modified TCER. It was performed with a standard dual channel, 26 French irrigating...

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Hysteroscopic Findings in Women With Menorrhagia

Carlo De Angelis, Antonella Carnevale, Giuseppina Santoro, Italo Nofroni, more

The Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology > 2013 > 20 > 2 > 209-214

To describe the hysteroscopic findings in patients complaining of menorrhagia to establish any significant association between menorrhagia and benign/malignant intrauterine disorders.Prospective cohort study (Canadian Task Force classification II).University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy.One hundred eighteen premenopausal women undergoing office hysteroscopy for menorrhagia (group A) and 344 premenopausal...

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Extraperitoneal para-aortic lymphadenectomy: Laparoscopic single port approach

Saverio Tateo, Liliana Mereu, Luca Mencaglia

Gynecologic Oncology > 2012 > 127 > 3 > 643

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The practicability and surgeons’ subjective experiences with vaginal danazol before an operative hysteroscopy

Pasquale Florio, Marco Filippeschi, Alberto Imperatore, Liliana Mereu, more

Steroids > 2012 > 77 > 5 > 528-533

This randomized, double blind, placebo-controlled study compared the usefulness of danazol 400mg vaginally versus 600mg orally in women as a preoperative preparation for hysteroscopic surgery.Ninety-one fertile women were randomly allocated to Group A (46 patients received 400mg of danazol placed into the posterior vaginal fornix and three oral tablets of commercially available folic acid as a placebo),...

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Nomegestrol acetate versus combined oral contraceptive as rapid endometrial preparation for operative hysteroscopy: a prospective randomised pilot study

Liliana Mereu, Giuliana Giunta, Giada Carri, Claudia Prasciolu, more

Gynecological Surgery > 2012 > 9 > 4 > 401-404

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Low-Dose Spinal Anesthesia with Hyperbaric Bupivacaine with Intrathecal Fentanyl for Operative Hysteroscopy: A Case Series Study

Pasquale Florio, Rosa Puzzutiello, Marco Filippeschi, Pasquale D’Onofrio, more

The Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology > 2012 > 19 > 1 > 107-112

To estimate the efficacy and tolerability of low dose spinal anesthesia during operative hysteroscopy in a group of patients with high surgical risks.Case series study (Canadian Task Force Classification II-2).Tertiary centers for women health care.A total of 47 women affected by endometrial polyps (n = 32), myomas (n = 8), and abnormal uterine bleeding (n = 7) scheduled for inpatient operative hysteroscopy...

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Clinical outcomes associated with surgical treatment of endometrioma coupled with resection of the posterior broad ligament

Liliana Mereu, Pasquale Florio, Giada Carri, Alessandro Pontis, more

International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics > 2012 > 116 > 1 > 57-60

To evaluate clinical outcomes associated with the resection of both endometrioma and posterior broad ligament (PBL) among women with PBL adhesion associated with endometrioma.Between January 2007 and December 2009 at the Villanova Hospital, Florence, Italy, a prospective trial was conducted on 99 consecutive patients with unilateral or bilateral endometrioma who underwent laparoscopic ovarian cystectomy...

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Cytoplasmic expression of estrogen receptor beta (ERβ) predicts poor clinical outcome in advanced serous ovarian cancer

Ilaria De Stefano, Gian Franco Zannoni, Maria Grazia Prisco, Anna Fagotti, more

Gynecologic Oncology > 2011 > 122 > 3 > 573-579

In this study we investigated the prognostic value of estrogen receptor α (ERα), ERβ and progesterone receptor (PR) expression in 58 untreated advanced serous ovarian cancer patients. The study also included 12 macroscopically and histopathologically normal ovaries.Protein expression was evaluated by immunohistochemistry, and antibody staining detected in both the nuclear and cytoplasmic compartments...

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Single‐port access laparoscopic assisted vaginal hysterectomy in a case of uterine ventrofixation using a new reusable device

Stefano Angioni, Giovanni Maricosu, Liliana Mereu, Luca Mencaglia, more

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Research > 37 > 7 > 933 - 936

Vaginal hysterectomy may at times prove difficult and require laparoscopic assistance to ensure safety of operations. This article reports a case in which single port laparoscopic assistance enabled vaginal hysterectomy in a patient with severe uterine ventrofixation. The use of an innovative device and tips to be applied are described.

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Single port access laparoscopic myomectomy with X-Cone

Liliana Mereu, Stefano Angioni, Alessandro Pontis, Giada Carri, more

Gynecological Surgery > 2011 > 8 > 3 > 337-340

Single-port access laparoscopy (SPAL) technique is developing in the gynecological field but few experiences on SPAL myomectomy have been reported. A case of an infertile nulliparous woman who has been observed to have an intramural–subserosal myoma of 4 cm and bilateral sactosalpinx is reported. The patient underwent a SPAL to remove the myoma and bilateral sactosalpinx. No intraoperative and postoperative...

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Single access laparoscopy for adnexal pathologies using a novel reusable port and curved instruments

Liliana Mereu, Stefano Angioni, Gian Benedetto Melis, Luca Mencaglia

International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics > 2010 > 109 > 1 > 78-80

To present our initial experience using single access laparoscopic surgery for the treatment of benign adnexal pathologies.Sixteen patients with benign adnexal pathologies underwent salpingoophorectomy (n=9), ovarian cyst enucleation (n=5), or salpingectomy (n=2) using a laparoendoscopic single site approach with a new multiport reusable trocar and flexible and curved—as well as standard—laparoscopic...

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Intracytoplasmic sperm injection and pregnancy with decapitated sperm

Laura Gambera, Patrizia Falcone, Luca Mencaglia, Giulia Collodel, more

Fertility and Sterility > 2010 > 93 > 4 > 1347.e7-1347.e12

To perform intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) in couples with primary infertility owing to sperm defects causing total immotility.Case report.Couple Sterility Center, University of Siena.Two infertile couples, the male members of which had “detached tail” genetic sperm defect.Physical and hormonal assays, semen analysis by light and electron microscopy, Y microdeletion screening, immunofluorescence,...

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Minilaparotomy in spinal anaesthesia: a surgical choice in treatment of benign gynaecologic disease

Daniela Surico, Luca Mencaglia, Francesca Riboni, Alessandro Vigone, more

Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics > 2010 > 281 > 3 > 461-465

Purpose Minilaparotomic access in spinal anaesthesia represents an example of mininvasive surgery and could be a valid cost–benefit alternative in the surgical treatment of benign gynaecologic diseases. Methods The study is a randomized study. We analyzed a consecutive series of 80 patients treated for benign gynaecological diseases with spinal (group A) or with general anaesthesia (group B). ...

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Bipolar resectoscope: the future perspective of hysteroscopic surgery

Luca Mencaglia, Emmanuel Lugo, Sabina Consigli, Cristiana Barbosa

Gynecological Surgery > 2009 > 6 > 1 > 15-20

The objective of this study is to prove the effectiveness and security of bipolar resectoscope in hysteroscopic surgery. A clinic-based, prospective, non-randomised trial was conducted in Centro Florence di Chirurgia Ambulatoriale, Florence, Italy. One hundred fifty-seven women with endocavitary uterine pathologies, such as myoma, polyp, uterine septum and endometrial hyperplasia, were included in...

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Missed Hysteroscopic Detection of Uterine Carcinoma before Endometrial Resection: Report of Three Cases

Maurizio Colafranceschi, Stefano Bettocchi, Luca Mencaglia, Bruno J. van Herendael

Gynecologic Oncology > 1996 > 62 > 2 > 298-300

Endometrial ablation or resection using hysteroscopy appears to be an effective treatment for menorrhagia resistant to medical therapy. Three patients with endometrial adenocarcinoma missed in the preoperative hysteroscopic and histological assessment and subjected to endometrial resection were collected in a multicenter study. One case was an early adenocarcinoma in the background of late proliferative...

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Preparation of the endometrium prior to hysteroscopic surgery

Luca Mencaglia

European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology > 1996 > 65 > 1 > 107-108

The objective of this paper is to evaluate the efficacy of pharmacological preparation of the endometrium before hysteroscopic surgery. Comparisons between utilization of progesterone, danazol and GnRH analogues are evaluated. Indications for pharmacological preparation of the endometrium are submucous myomas, endometrial ablation and hysteroscopic treatment of uterine septa. Results showed that GnRH...

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ABNORMAL UTERINE BLEEDING (2)
ENDOMETRIAL PREPARATION (2)
ENDOMETRIAL RESECTION (2)
HYSTEROSCOPIC SURGERY (2)
MENORRHAGIA (2)
MINIMAL ACCESS SURGERY (2)
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RESECTOSCOPY (2)
UTERINE SEPTUM (2)
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BIPOLAR RESECTOSCOPE (1)
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ENDOMETRIOMA (1)
ENDOMETRIUM (1)
EPITHELIAL OVARIAN CARCINOMAS (1)
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ETHINYL ESTRADIOL AND GESTODENE ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE (1)
FISH (1)
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OVARIAN ENDOMETRIOSIS (1)
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SINGLE PORT ACCESS (1)
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SPINAL ANAESTHESIA (1)
SUBMUCOUS MYOMA (1)
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