M. Yamaguchi

OBJECTIVE: Various types of malignancy can develop in patients with endometriosis. Enhancing mural nodules have been reported as an imaging characteristic of malignant transformations. We evaluated contrast-enhanced MR imaging to determine …

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the potential role of prostaglandins (PGs) in tubal function in endometriosis. SUBJECTS: Fallopian tubes were obtained from 36 women undergoing abdominal total hysterectomy. METHODS: PG production of the human fall…

The role of prostaglandins (PGs) in dysmenorrhea of endometriosis is poorly understood. The relationship between dysmenorrheic severity and prostaglandin production was investigated in endometriosis. Slices of normal myometrium, adenomyosis…

In order to investigate the production of eicosanoids in human endometrium, myometrium, leiomyoma, adenomyosis, normal ovary, non-endometrial cyst and endometrial cyst, slices of each tissue were incubated. 6-Keto-prostaglandin (PG) F1 alph…

In order to investigate whether prostanoids are involved in the pathophysiology of endometriosis, prostaglandin and leukotriene concentrations in peritoneal fluid were measured in adenomyosis, ovarian chocolate cyst and uterine leiomyoma. I…