PAPADIA , Andrea

Surgery represents a mainstay in the treatment of gynecological cancers. It is a common belief that operating on obese patients causes more peri- and postoperative complications than operating on nonobese patients. The surgical outcome in gynecological oncology can be evaluated by comparing intra- and postoperative complications, extent of...

Objective: We report a case of uterine leiomyosarcoma occurring after uterine artery embolization and review the previously published cases. We estimate the incidence of sarcoma after UAE, the mean diagnostic delay in young women undergoing this procedure and review the potential and limits of preoperative procedures in diagnosing uterine...

In the early 1990s, different authors independently developed techniques for pelvic and paraaortic lymph node sampling. Since then, laparoscopic lymphadenectomy has been demonstrated to yield the same number of nodes when compared with the laparotomic approach. Only one microscopically involved lymph node was lost at laparoscopic...

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INTRODUCTION: Vulvar metastases are the third largest group of malignant tumors of the vulva. We report the tenth case of breast cancer vulvar metastases arising 11 years after the primary diagnosis of breast ductal carcinoma and the first occurring eight years after a local recurrence on a rectus abdominis myocutaneous flap. CASE REPORT: A...

INTRODUCTION: The aim of this study was to evaluate endometrial changes after five years of tamoxifen treatment by measuring endometrial thickness with transvaginal ultrasonography. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Fifty-five asymptomatic postmenopausal women who had assumed tamoxifen, 20 mg daily, for five years were controlled six months...

The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect on sonographically measured endometrial thickness in postmenopausal estrogen receptor positive breast cancer patients with hysteroscopically verified endometrial pathologies who switched from adjuvant tamoxifen (20 mg daily) to anastrozole treatment (1 mg daily). This study included 70...

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Objectives: A significant number of women diagnosed with atypical endometrial hyperplasia (AEH) on endometrial biopsy will be diagnosed with endometrial cancer (EC) on the hysterectomy specimen at permanent section. Surgical treatment for AEH and EC differ substantially. We have assessed the concordance in EC between frozen and permanent...

Epithelial ovarian carcinoma is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths among women with gynecologic malignancies. Antagonists of the growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH) have been shown to inhibit growth of various cancers through endocrine, autocrine, and paracrine mechanisms. In this study, we have investigated the effects of GHRH...