Kaoru Yamawaki

ORCID: 0000-0002-4030-1890 · 7 papers in corpus · active 2018-2025

Study types

  • article 6
  • preprint 1

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 5
  • mesh:D004715 3
  • adenomyosis 2
  • infertility 1
article 2025
Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Research ·doi:10.1111/jog.16323

Borderline ovarian tumors primarily affect younger women and are associated with favorable prognosis, making fertility-sparing surgery a viable option. However, owing to recurrence and malignant transformation risks, careful monitoring is r…

article 2023
Cancers ·doi:10.3390/cancers15235635

Endometriosis is known to be associated with an increased risk of endometrioid and clear cell ovarian cancer. However, the association between endometriosis and endometrial cancer is controversial. Therefore, we retrospectively analyzed the…

article 2021
Cancer science ·doi:10.1111/cas.14871

KRAS is the most frequently mutated in ovarian endometriosis. However, it is unclear whether the KRAS mutant allele's mRNA is expressed and plays a biological role in ovarian endometriosis. Here, we performed mutation-specific RNA in situ h…

article 2021
iScience ·doi:10.1016/j.isci.2021.102258

The fundamental morphology of the endometrial glands is not sufficiently understood by 2D observation because these glands have complicated winding and branching patterns. To construct a large picture of the endometrial gland structure, we …

article 2020
Scientific reports ·doi:10.1038/s41598-020-71273-7

ARID1A loss-of-function mutation accompanied by a loss of ARID1A protein expression is considered one of the most important driver events in endometriosis-associated ovarian cancer. Although our recent genomic study clarified that ARID1A lo…

preprint 2020
·doi:10.1101/2020.05.29.118034

Summary The histological basis of the human uterine endometrium has been established by 2D observation. However, the fundamental morphology of endometrial glands is not sufficiently understood because these glands have complicated winding a…

article 2018
Cell reports ·doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2018.07.037

Endometriosis is characterized by ectopic endometrial-like epithelium and stroma, of which molecular characteristics remain to be fully elucidated. We sequenced 107 ovarian endometriotic and 82 normal uterine endometrial epithelium samples …