Yu Tanaka

No ORCID on file · 5 papers in corpus
case-report 2025
Cureus ·doi:10.7759/cureus.78747

Endometriosis, while prevalent, can manifest in extra-pelvic locations with varying degrees of rarity, but reports of multiple extra-pelvic sites within a patient are extremely rare. We report a unique case of a 45-year-old female with conc…

case-report 2024
Frontiers in medicine ·doi:10.3389/fmed.2024.1457611

OBJECTIVE: Adenomyosis-related infertility is increasingly being diagnosed, and surgical intervention has been suggested to improve fertility. Elastography, a noninvasive ultrasound technique, is promising for diagnosing and guiding the res…

review 2017
Medicine ·doi:10.1097/md.0000000000008971

RATIONALE: Leiomyomas arising from the anterolateral abdominal wall are uncommon, and their pathogenesis remains unknown. We present the 15th case of such a tumor, having this unique tumor morphology, followed by a detailed discussion on di…

review 2016
Journal of medical case reports ·doi:10.1186/s13256-016-1167-1

BACKGROUND: Uterine leiomyomas are common uterine tumors, and typical cases of leiomyoma are easily diagnosed by imaging study. However, uterine leiomyomas are often altered by degenerative changes, which can cause difficulty and confusion …

lab-animal 2015
Reproductive medicine and biology ·doi:10.1007/s12522-014-0201-5

PURPOSE: We evaluated the role of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFα) in rat ovulation and granulosa cell death of ovarian follicles during the periovulatory stage. METHODS: Immature rats primed with pregnant mare serum gonadotropin were in…