Toshihiko Terao

No ORCID on file · 7 papers in corpus · active 1982-2008

Study types

  • article 7

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 6
  • adenomyosis 3
  • endometrioma 2
article 2008
European journal of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive biology ·doi:10.1016/j.ejogrb.2007.06.017

ObjectiveOur prospective studies in Japan have found an increased ovarian cancer incidence in women with ovarian endometrioma (standardized incidence ratio, 8.95; 95% confidence intervals, 4.12-5.3). The risk increased with increasing age a…

article 2006
International journal of gynecological cancer : official journal of the International Gynecological Cancer Society ·doi:10.1111/j.1525-1438.2006.00754.x

Although some studies have indicated that endometriosis may increase the risk of developing ovarian cancer, there are no data from epidemiologic studies in Japan. We prospectively analyzed all cases of ovarian endometrioma enrolled in the p…

article 2005
The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism ·doi:10.1210/jc.2004-1946

OBJECTIVE: Endometriosis, a common disease among women of reproductive age, is characterized by the presence of endometrial-like tissue outside the uterus. TNF-alpha induces IL-8 production in endometriotic cells through nuclear factor-kapp…

article 1992
Nihon Sanka Fujinka Gakkai zasshi

We have established an in vitro system in which epithelial cells (EC) and stromal cells (SC) from the human endometrium are placed in culture to examine the production of CA125. There was a much greater amount of CA125 in heterotopic EC aft…

article 1989
Nihon Sanka Fujinka Gakkai zasshi

We measured five tumor markers simultaneously for serodiagnostic testing as a method for the early detection of ovarian cancer. To decrease both false negativity and false positivity in the results of combination assay, statistical analysis…

article 1988
article 1982