Franco Orsi

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
98 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Franco Orsi is a scholar working on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Surgery and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Franco Orsi has authored 98 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, 34 papers in Surgery and 32 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Franco Orsi's work include Renal cell carcinoma treatment (27 papers), Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis (23 papers) and Renal and related cancers (13 papers). Franco Orsi is often cited by papers focused on Renal cell carcinoma treatment (27 papers), Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis (23 papers) and Renal and related cancers (13 papers). Franco Orsi collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United Kingdom and Switzerland. Franco Orsi's co-authors include Paolo Della Vigna, Guido Bonomo, Lorenzo Monfardini, Giuseppe Curigliano, Roberto Biffi, Filippo de Braud, B. Andreoni, Gianluca Maria Varano, Giulia Viale and Carmen Belli and has published in prestigious journals such as Radiology, Annals of Oncology and European Journal of Cancer.

In The Last Decade

Franco Orsi

91 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Targeting the microenvironment in solid tumors

2018 385 citations Paolo Della Vigna, Franco Orsi et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Franco Orsi Italy	25	1.1k	673	672	584	455	98	2.6k
Paolo Della Vigna Italy	22	649 0.6×	611 0.9×	377 0.6×	193 0.3×	263 0.6×	73	1.9k
J. Thaler Austria	37	490 0.5×	1.1k 1.6×	461 0.7×	314 0.5×	144 0.3×	125	4.1k
Uwe Pelzer Germany	30	801 0.8×	2.1k 3.2×	749 1.1×	283 0.5×	122 0.3×	135	3.0k
Carlo Spreafico Italy	26	1.3k 1.2×	1.2k 1.8×	762 1.1×	67 0.1×	370 0.8×	79	3.6k
Yoshitaka Inaba Japan	31	1.2k 1.1×	974 1.4×	901 1.3×	58 0.1×	457 1.0×	197	3.1k
Vincent P. Chuang United States	29	1.0k 1.0×	524 0.8×	1.2k 1.8×	132 0.2×	217 0.5×	68	2.5k
Maria Giulia Zampino Italy	23	808 0.8×	1.7k 2.6×	625 0.9×	46 0.1×	208 0.5×	95	2.5k
Donald Klippenstein United States	21	311 0.3×	610 0.9×	367 0.5×	198 0.3×	875 1.9×	42	2.4k
William S. Rilling United States	27	1.1k 1.0×	1.2k 1.7×	1.1k 1.7×	81 0.1×	471 1.0×	74	3.9k
Junsung Choi United States	24	404 0.4×	1.2k 1.8×	506 0.8×	77 0.1×	299 0.7×	56	2.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Franco Orsi

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Franco Orsi

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Milano, Monica, Nadia Bianco, Carmine Valenza, et al.. (2025). 336P Approaches for locoregional optimization in oligometastatic and oligopersistent metastatic breast cancer. ESMO Open. 10. 104908–104908.

Piccinelli, Mattia Luca, Chiara Vaccaro, Danilo Bottero, et al.. (2025). Retroperitoneal lymph node dissection for testis cancer: a comparison between open and robot-assisted approach in oncological and surgical outcomes. European Journal of Surgical Oncology. 51(8). 110281–110281.

Vaccaro, Chiara, Mattia Luca Piccinelli, Letizia Maria Ippolita Jannello, et al.. (2025). Thermal ablation for local tumor recurrence after previous partial nephrectomy: Perioperative and oncological outcomes. Urologic Oncology Seminars and Original Investigations. 43(7). 444.e1–444.e10.

Orsi, Franco, Gianluca Maria Varano, Paolo Della Vigna, et al.. (2024). Liquid nitrogen-based cryoablation: complication rates for lung, bone, and soft tissue tumors cryoablation. British Journal of Radiology. 97(1163). 1863–1869.

Orsi, Franco, Daniele Maiettini, Vincenzo Bagnardi, & Ricardo Azziz. (2023). Prospective Cohort Study Quantifying the Effect of the LevaLap 1.0 on the Distance between the Abdominal Wall and Intra-abdominal Viscera. Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology. 30(9). 748–756. 1 indexed citations

Musi, Gennaro, Stefano Luzzago, Giovanni Mauri, et al.. (2023). Predicting Peri-Operative Outcomes in Patients Treated with Percutaneous Thermal Ablation for Small Renal Masses: The SuNS Nephrometry Score. Diagnostics. 13(18). 2955–2955. 3 indexed citations

Mauri, Giovanni, Lorenzo Monfardini, Maria Giulia Zampino, et al.. (2021). Optimizing Loco Regional Management of Oligometastatic Colorectal Cancer: Technical Aspects and Biomarkers, Two Sides of the Same Coin. Cancers. 13(11). 2617–2617. 4 indexed citations

Bombelli, L., Vincenzo Bagnardi, Cristiana Fodor, et al.. (2021). Intra- inter-observer repeatability in liver computed tomography volumetry in patients undergoing radioembolization simulation. Abdominal Radiology. 46(7). 3448–3455. 1 indexed citations

Mauri, Giovanni, D Rossi, Guido Bonomo, et al.. (2020). Image-guided thermal ablation of central renal tumors with retrograde cold pyeloperfusion technique: a monocentric experience. International Journal of Hyperthermia. 37(1). 660–667. 4 indexed citations

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Ferrari, Federica, Giovanni Mauri, Luca Nicosia, et al.. (2020). Image-guided laser ablation in the treatment of recurrence of renal tumours: technique and preliminary results. European Radiology Experimental. 4(1). 1–1. 18 indexed citations

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Zampino, Maria Giulia, Elena Magni, Paola Simona Ravenda, et al.. (2016). Treatments for colorectal liver metastases: A new focus on a familiar concept. Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology. 108. 154–163. 32 indexed citations

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Mauri, Giovanni, Gianluca Maria Varano, & Franco Orsi. (2016). TAE for HCC: When the Old Way is Better than the New Ones!!!. CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology. 39(6). 799–800. 10 indexed citations

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Orsi, Franco, Chiara Casadio, Salvatore Galdy, et al.. (2016). Successful palliative approach with high-intensity focused ultrasound in a patient with metastatic anaplastic pancreatic carcinoma: a case report. ecancermedicalscience. 10. 635–635. 10 indexed citations

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Orsi, Franco & Gianluca Maria Varano. (2015). Minimal invasive treatments for liver malignancies. Ultrasonics Sonochemistry. 27. 659–667. 4 indexed citations

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Jereczek‐Fossa, Barbara Alicja, Cristiana Fodor, Stefania Russo, et al.. (2014). Radiotherapy in Prostate Cancer Patients With Pelvic Lymphocele After Surgery: Clinical and Dosimetric Data of 30 Patients. Clinical Genitourinary Cancer. 13(4). e223–e228. 4 indexed citations

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Biffi, Roberto, Nicola Fazio, Fabrizio Luca, et al.. (2010). Surgical outcome after docetaxel-based neoadjuvant chemotherapy in locally-advanced gastric cancer.. PubMed. 16(7). 868–74. 68 indexed citations

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Biffi, Roberto, Franco Orsi, S. Pozzi, et al.. (2009). Best choice of central venous insertion site for the prevention of catheter-related complications in adult patients who need cancer therapy: a randomized trial. Annals of Oncology. 20(5). 935–940. 160 indexed citations

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Orsi, Franco, et al.. (2004). Percutaneous placement of peritoneal port-catheter in oncologic patients. European Radiology. 14(11). 2020–2024. 7 indexed citations

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Cremonesi, Marta, Mahila Ferrari, Stefania Zoboli, et al.. (1999). Biokinetics and dosimetry in patients administered with 111 In-DOTA-Tyr 3 -octreotide: implications for internal radiotherapy with 90 Y-DOTATOC. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. 26(8). 877–886. 118 indexed citations

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Bezzi, Mario, et al.. (1994). Self-expandable Nitinol Stent for the Management of Biliary Obstruction: Long-term Clinical Results. Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology. 5(2). 287–293. 50 indexed citations

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