Akiko Hayashi

ORCID: 0000-0003-1297-1843 · 1 paper in corpus

article 2012

Involvement of pelvic inflammation–related mismatch repair abnormalities and microsatellite instability in the malignant transformation of ovarian endometriosis

Human pathology ·doi:10.1016/j.humpath.2012.02.005

Inflammation in the ovary, including ovulation and pelvic inflammatory disease, has been proposed to play a role in the pathogenesis of ovarian cancer. Endometriotic lesions trigger a local inflammatory reaction and have been reported to be…