Hiroaki Shibahara

Ovarian endometrioma is an ovarian cyst formed when endometrial tissue grows on the surface of the ovaries, often leading to chronic abdominal pain and fertility problems. This study evaluated the technique and efficacy of transvaginal etha…

Endometriosis is a chronic disease that commonly affects women in their reproductive age. It has been reported that the infertility due to endometriosis is largely caused by pelvic adhesion, oocyte damage, and so on. There are several cause…

Endometriosis is an estrogen-dependent disease with symptoms of dysmenorrhea, chronic pain, and infertility that affects 6% to 10% of women of reproductive age. Medical or surgical therapy, such as administration of an anti-gonadotropin or …

Only a few cases of premenarcheal endometriosis have been reported in the literature, and bladder endometriosis accounts for 1% of all cases of endometriosis. The authors report the case of an 11-year-old girl who presented with macrohematu…

[Objective] An air-fluid level (niveau) on abdominal X-ray is usually an important sign of ileus. We experienced two cases of ileus without air-fluid level following gynecologic surgery. Both patients underwent double-balloon enteroscopy fo…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the localization of the proteins osteopontin (OPN) and L-selectin (SELL). DESIGN: Retrospective nonrandomized immunohistochemical study in a surgically induced rat model of peritoneal endometriosis and in samples …

AIM: Transvaginal hydrolaparoscopy (THL) has recently been developed as a less invasive alternative to conventional laparoscopy. There are some reports that described the usefulness and prognostic value of diagnostic THL in infertile women.…

Although laparoscopic adenomyomectomy may be a possible risk factor for uterine rupture in subsequent pregnancy, few reports have described it. A 35-year-old woman became pregnant 1 month after laparoscopic adenomyomectomy. At the 28th week…

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To investigate the feasibility and clinical usefulness of transvaginal salpingoscopy (TS) during transvaginal hydrolaparoscopy (THL) in infertile women. DESIGN: Retrospective study (Canadian Task Force classification II-3)…

PROBLEM: Although the presence of mast cells in endometriosis lesions has been reported, there have been no reports of their pathological localization in ovarian endometrial cysts. METHODS OF STUDY: The localization of mast cells in ovaria…