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Francesco Ferrara
Researcher at University of Siena
Publications - 101
Citations - 1200
Francesco Ferrara is an academic researcher from University of Siena. The author has contributed to research in topics: Lymphadenectomy & Cancer. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 100 publications receiving 892 citations. Previous affiliations of Francesco Ferrara include The Catholic University of America & Autonomous University of Barcelona.
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Prospective Observational Study on acute Appendicitis Worldwide (POSAW).
Massimo Sartelli,Gian L. Baiocchi,Salomone Di Saverio,Francesco Ferrara,Francesco M. Labricciosa,Luca Ansaloni,Federico Coccolini,Deepak Vijayan,Ashraf Abbas,Hariscine K. Abongwa,John Agboola,Adamu Ahmed,Lali Akhmeteli,Nezih Akkapulu,Seckin Akkucuk,Fatih Altintoprak,Aurelia L. Andreiev,Dimitrios Anyfantakis,Boiko Atanasov,Miklosh Bala,Dimitrios Balalis,Oussama Baraket,Giovanni Bellanova,Marcelo A. Beltrán,Renato Bessa Melo,Roberto Bini,Konstantinos Bouliaris,Daniele Brunelli,Adrian Castillo,Marco Catani,Asri Che Jusoh,Alain Chichom-Mefire,Gianfranco Cocorullo,Raul Coimbra,Elif Colak,Silvia Figueiredo Costa,Koray Das,Samir Delibegovic,Zaza Demetrashvili,Isidoro Di Carlo,Nadezda Kiseleva,Tamer El Zalabany,Mario Paulo Faro,Margarida Ferreira,Gustavo Pereira Fraga,Mahir Gachabayov,Wagih Ghnnam,Teresa Giménez Maurel,Georgios Gkiokas,Carlos Augusto Gomes,Ewen A. Griffiths,Ali Guner,Sanjay Gupta,Andreas Hecker,Elcio S. Hirano,Adrien Hodonou,Martin Hutan,Orestis Ioannidis,Arda Isik,G B Ivakhov,Sumita A Jain,Mantas Jokubauskas,Aleksandar Karamarkovic,Saila Kauhanen,Robin Kaushik,Alfie J. Kavalakat,Jakub Kenig,Vladimir Khokha,Desmond Khor,Dennis Y. Kim,Jae I. Kim,Victor Y. Kong,Konstantinos Lasithiotakis,Pedro Leão,Miguel Leon,Andrey Litvin,Varut Lohsiriwat,Eudaldo López-Tomassetti Fernandez,Eftychios Lostoridis,James D. Maciel,Piotr Major,Ana Dimova,Dimitrios K. Manatakis,Athanasio Marinis,Aleix Martínez-Pérez,Sanjay Marwah,Michael McFarlane,Cristian Mesina,Michał Pędziwiatr,N. Michalopoulos,Evangelos P. Misiakos,Ali Yasen Y. Mohamedahmed,Radu Moldovanu,Giulia Montori,Raghuveer Mysore Narayana,Ionut Negoi,Ioannis Nikolopoulos,Giuseppe Novelli,Viktors Novikovs,Iyiade Olaoye,Abdelkarim H. Omari,Carlos A. Ordoñez,Mouaqit Ouadii,Zeynep Özkan,Ajay Kumar Pal,Gian Marco Palini,Lars Ivo Partecke,Francesco Pata,Gerson Alves Pereira Júnior,Tadeja Pintar,Magdalena Pisarska,Cesar F. Ploneda-Valencia,Konstantinos Pouggouras,Vinod V. Prabhu,Padmakumar Ramakrishnapillai,Jean-Marc Regimbeau,Marianne Marchini Reitz,Daniel Rios-Cruz,Sten Saar,Boris Sakakushev,Charalampos Seretis,Alexander Sazhin,Vishal G Shelat,Matej Skrovina,Dmitry Smirnov,Charalampos Spyropoulos,Marcin Strzałka,Peep Talving,Ricardo Alessandro Teixeira Gonsaga,George Theobald,G. Tomadze,Myftar Torba,Cristian Tranà,Jan Ulrych,Mustafa Yener Uzunoglu,Alin Vasilescu,Savino Occhionorelli,Aurélien Venara,András Vereczkei,Nereo Vettoretto,Nutu Vlad,Maciej Walędziak,Tonguç Utku Yılmaz,Kuo-Ching Yuan,Cui Yun-feng,Justas Zilinskas,Gérard Grelpois,Fausto Catena +147 more
TL;DR: The results of the present study confirm the clinical value of imaging techniques and prognostic scores and confirm that appendectomy remains the most effective treatment of acute appendicitis.
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Laparoscopic versus open appendectomy: a retrospective cohort study assessing outcomes and cost-effectiveness
TL;DR: The laparoscopic approach is a safe and efficient operative procedure in appendectomy and it provides clinically beneficial advantages over open method (including shorter hospital stay, decreased need for postoperative analgesia, early food tolerance, earlier return to work, lower rate of wound infection) against only marginally higher hospital costs.
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Strong Prognostic Value of Microsatellite Instability in Intestinal Type Non-cardia Gastric Cancer.
Daniele Marrelli,Karol Polom,Valeria Pascale,Carla Vindigni,Riccardo Piagnerelli,Lorenzo Giacinto De Franco,Francesco Ferrara,Giandomenico Roviello,Lorenzo Garosi,Roberto Petrioli,Franco Roviello +10 more
TL;DR: MSI was confirmed as a significant predictor of long term outcome in a large series of GC with a long follow-up time, but the prognostic value is limited to selected histotypes of non-cardia tumors.
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Diagnosis and treatment of perforated or bleeding peptic ulcers: 2013 WSES position paper
Salomone Di Saverio,Marco Bassi,Nazareno Smerieri,Michele Masetti,Francesco Ferrara,Carlo Fabbri,Luca Ansaloni,Stefania Ghersi,Matteo Serenari,Federico Coccolini,Noel Naidoo,Massimo Sartelli,Gregorio Tugnoli,Fausto Catena,Vincenzo Cennamo,Elio Jovine +15 more
TL;DR: A thorough review of the current evidence on diagnosis and management of both perforated peptic ulcers and bleeding peptic Ulcers is performed.
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Laparoscopic mini-gastric bypass: short-term single-institute experience.
Luigi Piazza,Francesco Ferrara,Silvana Leanza,Danilo Coco,Salvatore Sarvà,Angelo Bellia,Carla Di Stefano,Francesco Basile,Antonio Biondi +8 more
TL;DR: A significant reduction of BMI and percentage of excess weight after surgery with a significant improvement in obesity-related comorbidities including blood pressure, hyperglycemia, blood lipid, uric acid, and liver function is registered.