Shimizu T

BACKGROUND: Peritoneal defects of the broad ligament of the uterus are uncommon anatomical abnormalities that may be congenital or acquired. Situs inversus totalis is a congenital condition characterized by a complete mirror-image arrangeme…

Accurate diagnosis of upper-tract urothelial carcinoma is difficult when urine cytology and ureteroscopy are inconclusive. A 59-year-old woman had undergone total hysterectomy for uterine endometrioid carcinoma 5 years earlier. Follow-up co…

A Japanese woman in her 30s presented to the emergency department at midnight with right upper quadrant pain that had lasted for a week. Without a definitive diagnosis, she was prescribed acetaminophen and levofloxacin and discharged. When …

Lynch syndrome (LS), which is an autosomal dominant disorder caused primarily by germline pathogenic variants of mismatch repair (MMR) genes, cases a number of malignancies. Hematologic malignancies are not included as related tumors of LS …

BACKGROUND: Inguinal endometriosis is a rare clinical disease with an unclear etiology and pathogenesis, and its diagnosis requires accurate medical history-taking and histological examination. However, surgical treatment for the condition …

OBJECTIVES: To report the effect of a selective androgen receptor modulators (SARMs) on the urethral continence mechanisms in a rat model of stress urinary incontinence (SUI) induced by bilateral ovariectomy (OVX). MATERIALS AND METHODS: F…

We report a case of a 48-year-old woman with multiple cerebral infarctions caused by nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis (NBTE) because of adenomyosis with high serum carbohydrate antigen (CA)125 level. Transesophageal echocardiography (TE…

The placental passage and the the therapeutic efficacy of flomoxef (FMOX, 6315-S) were studied in patients in the perinatal period. A summary of the obtained results is as follows: 1. Concentrations of FMOX in maternal serum, umbilical cord…