International medical case reports journal

Chirchiglia D, Della Torre A, Murrone D, Chirchiglia P, Marotta R.
PMID: 28503077
Int Med Case Rep J. 2017 May 05;10:163-166. doi: 10.2147/IMCRJ.S133465. eCollection 2017.

Cerebral cavernous angioma or cavernoma is a benign vascular malformation, usually asymptomatic. It is infrequent and often its discovery is incidental, a so-called incidentaloma. However, these lesions can be symptomatic, causing headaches, epilepsy, cerebral hemorrhage and other neurological signs...

World journal of clinical cases

Landi A, Marotta N, Mancarella C, Dugoni DE, Tarantino R, Delfini R.
PMID: 25032205
World J Clin Cases. 2014 Jul 16;2(7):289-92. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v2.i7.289.

Surgical treatment for cervical kyphotic deformity is still controversial. Circumferential approach has been well described in the literature but long terms outcomes are not well reported. Important to decide the correct treatment option is the preoperative radiological exams to...

World journal of clinical cases

Marotta N, Landi A, Mancarella C, Rocco P, Pietrantonio A, Galati G, Bolognese A, Delfini R.
PMID: 25610853
World J Clin Cases. 2015 Jan 16;3(1):77-80. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v3.i1.77.

Xanthogranulomas (XG) are benign proliferative disorder of histiocytes, a non-Langerhans cell histiocytosis. Whose etiology is unknown. The nature of these lesions is controversial and could be either reactive or neoplastic; the presence of monoclonal cells does, however, favor the...

Oncotarget

Pathak S, S S, Banerjee A, Marotta F, Gopinath M, Murugesan R, Zhang H, B B, Girigoswami A, Sollano J, Sun XF.
PMID: 29484148
Oncotarget. 2017 Nov 16;9(7):7739-7748. doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.22471. eCollection 2018 Jan 26.

Colorectal cancer, fourth leading form of cancer worldwide and is increasing in alarming rate in the developing countries. Treating colorectal cancer has become a big challenge worldwide and several antibody therapies such as bevacizumab, panitumumab and cetuximab are being...

World journal of clinical cases

Landi A, Marotta N, Mancarella C, Tarantino R, Delfini R.
PMID: 24303480
World J Clin Cases. 2013 Jun 16;1(3):116-20. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v1.i3.116.

We describe the case of a 67-year-old woman with L5-S1 ontogenetic spondylolisthesis treated with pedicle fixation associated with interbody arthrodesis performed with S1-L5 trans-sacral screwing according to the technique of Bartolozzi. The procedure was followed by a wide decompressive...

International journal of adolescent medicine and health

Marzuillo P, Marotta R, Apicella A, Guarino S, Esposito T, Della Vecchia N, Diplomatico M, Polito C, Perrone L, La Manna A.
PMID: 27508955
Int J Adolesc Med Health. 2016 Aug 05;30(2). doi: 10.1515/ijamh-2016-0039.

Factitious disorders are characterized by physical or psychological symptoms that are intentionally produced or feigned in order to assume the sick role. "Munchausen's syndrome" is one of these disorders and often is under-recognized or only suspected after unnecessary investigations....

Phytotherapy research : PTR

Grossini E, Marotta P, Farruggio S, Sigaudo L, Qoqaiche F, Raina G, de Giuli V, Mary D, Vacca G, Pollastro F.
PMID: 26032176
Phytother Res. 2015 Sep;29(9):1339-1348. doi: 10.1002/ptr.5386. Epub 2015 May 29.

Artemetin is one of the main components of Achillea millefolium L. and Artemisia absinthium, which have long been used for the treatment of various diseases. To date, however, available information about protective effects of their extracts on the cardiovascular...

Genetics

Motto M, Marotta R, Di Fonzo N, Soave C, Salamini F.
PMID: 17246309
Genetics. 1986 Jan;112(1):121-33. doi: 10.1093/genetics/112.1.121.

Transposon mutagenesis has been used to isolate mutable alleles at the Opaque-2 (O2) locus of maize. Plants with the Activator-Dissociation (Ac-Ds) system of transposable elements and O2 were crossed as males to a stable o2 tester line. Among a...

Journal of pathology informatics

Pilla D, Bosisio FM, Marotta R, Faggi S, Forlani P, Falavigna M, Biunno I, Martella E, De Blasio P, Borghesi S, Cattoretti G.
PMID: 23372983
J Pathol Inform. 2012;3:42. doi: 10.4103/2153-3539.104904. Epub 2012 Dec 20.

CONTEXT: In 2013 the high throughput technology known as Tissue Micro Array (TMA) will be fifteen years old. Its elements (design, construction and analysis) are intuitive and the core histopathology technique is unsophisticated, which may be a reason why...

Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment

Esposito M, Pascotto A, Gallai B, Parisi L, Roccella M, Marotta R, Lavano SM, Gritti A, Mazzotta G, Carotenuto M.
PMID: 23139628
Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat. 2012;8:509-13. doi: 10.2147/NDT.S36863. Epub 2012 Nov 01.

BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to assess the cognitive functioning of children affected by headache, pinpointing the differences in intelligence style between subjects affected by migraine without aura and subjects with tension-type headache.METHODS: The study population consisted...

Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment

Esposito M, Marotta R, Roccella M, Gallai B, Parisi L, Lavano SM, Carotenuto M.
PMID: 24489471
Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat. 2014 Jan 22;10:141-6. doi: 10.2147/NDT.S55518. eCollection 2014.

BACKGROUND: Neurofibromatosis 1 (NF1) is a complex and multifaceted neurocutaneous syndrome with many and varied comorbidities. The literature about the prevalence and degree of maternal stress and the impact of NF1 in the parent-child interaction is still scant. The...

Hepatology international

Mawardi M, Aba Alkhail F, Katada K, Levstik M, Quan D, Wall W, Marotta P, Hernandezalejandro R.
PMID: 21484141
Hepatol Int. 2011 Sep;5(3):830-3. doi: 10.1007/s12072-010-9242-y. Epub 2011 Jan 15.

UNLABELLED: Chronic liver failure from hepatitis C virus (HCV) remains the leading indication for liver transplantation (LT). Donation after cardiac death (DCD) donors are becoming a more frequent source of liver grafts. Hepatitis C recipients of standard donation after...