Nishitani H

No ORCID on file · 7 papers in corpus · active 2005-2009

Study types

  • article 5
  • other 1
  • review 1

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 5
  • endometrioma 3
  • adenomyosis 1
other 2009
Acta radiologica (Stockholm, Sweden : 1987) ·doi:10.1080/02841850903099981

BACKGROUND: Uterine endometrial cancer is the most common gynecologic malignancy, and benign endometrial hyperplasia or polyps should be differentiated from endometrial cancer. In evaluating endometrial cancer on magnetic resonance imaging …

article 2008
The British journal of radiology ·doi:10.1259/bjr/23847518

We report a case of polypoid endometriosis and correlate the MRI findings with the pathological findings. The polypoid endometriosis appeared as multiple polypoid masses protruding into the adjacent pelvic organs, including the uterus and r…

article 2008
Journal of computer assisted tomography ·doi:10.1097/rct.0b013e3181238362

OBJECTIVE: Decidual changes of endometrial tissue in endometriomas during pregnancy may manifest as mural nodules and mimic malignant transformation. We evaluated magnetic resonance findings of decidualized ovarian endometriomas for the dif…

article 2008
Journal of computer assisted tomography ·doi:10.1097/rct.0b013e318123e872

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the feasibility of magnetic resonance (MR) imaging at 3 T compared with 1.5 T while focusing on the shading sign of endometrial cysts on T2-weighted images. METHODS: Fifteen ovarian endometrial cysts in 10 patients un…

article 2008
AJR. American journal of roentgenology ·doi:10.2214/ajr.07.3974

OBJECTIVE: Susceptibility-weighted MRI combines magnitude and phase information from fully velocity-compensated gradient-echo sequences and depicts as signal voids the susceptibility effects caused by local inhomogeneity of the magnetic fie…

review 2006
Radiographics : a review publication of the Radiological Society of North America, Inc ·doi:10.1148/rg.262055041

Malignant transformation is a rare complication of endometriosis. Endometriosis-associated ovarian cancers are seen more often in younger women than are ovarian cancers without endometriosis, and early detection is important to improve the …

article 2005
European radiology ·doi:10.1007/s00330-005-2814-x

The endometrial cavity may demonstrate various imaging manifestations such as normal, reactive, inflammatory, and benign and malignant neoplasms. We evaluated usual and unusual magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings of the uterine endome…