Toshio Hirakawa

No ORCID on file · 3 papers in corpus · active 2000-2003

Study types

  • review 2
  • article 1

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 3
review 2003
Histological classification of ovarian cancer
Medical electron microscopy : official journal of the Clinical Electron Microscopy Society of Japan ·doi:10.1007/s007950300002

The histology of ovarian tumors exhibits a wide variety of histological features. The histological classification of ovarian tumors by the World Health Organization (WHO) is based on histogenetic principles, and this classification categori…

review 2002
Ovarian Endometrioid Adenocarcinoma Arising from an Endometriotic Cyst in a Postmenopausal Woman under Tamoxifen Therapy for Breast Cancer: A Case Report
Gynecologic oncology ·doi:10.1006/gyno.2002.6824

BackgroundOvarian cancer arising from an endometriotic cyst in a postmenopausal woman under tamoxifen therapy is rare.CaseWe herein report the case of a 67-year-old woman with a history of breast cancer, taking tamoxifen citrate 20 mg/day f…

article 2000
Ovarian Endometriosis Associated with Ovarian Carcinoma: A Clinicopathological and Immunohistochemical Study
Gynecologic oncology ·doi:10.1006/gyno.2000.5765

ObjectiveThe purpose of this study was to demonstrate the incidence, the histopathological characteristics, and the proliferation activity of endometriosis and atypical endometriosis associated with ovarian carcinoma.MethodsMicroscopic slid…