PurposePreoperative diagnosis of uterine leiomyosarcoma (LMS) is challenging because the disease can mimic benign leiomyoma (LM). The objective of the present study was to investigate the role of preoperative clinical characteristics and he…
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to investigate and compare the dietary patterns of Korean women diagnosed with endometrioma or other benign ovarian cysts. METHODS: A total of 66 patients, comprising 39 patients who were surgically diag…
Ossification in non-teratomatous ovaries is extremely rare. This phenomenon may occur in various non-neoplastic or neoplastic ovarian diseases. A 34-year-old woman presented with lower abdominal pain of about 3 months. Transvaginal ultrason…
Purpose: The aim of this study is to evaluate the association between body mass index (BMI) and endometriosis in Korean women. Materials and Methods: In a hospital-based case-control study, 134 endometriosis cases and 282 ovarian teratoma c…
연구배경: Tumor markers are useful for detection and preoperative evaluation of ovarian tumors. We evaluated the clinical usefulness of cancer antigen (CA) 125, human epididymis 4 (HE4), and CA72-4 levels and Risk of Ovarian Malignancy Algorith…
BACKGROUND: Tumor markers are useful for detection and preoperative evaluation of ovarian tumors. We evaluated the clinical usefulness of cancer antigen (CA) 125, human epididymis 4 (HE4), and CA72-4 levels and Risk of Ovarian Malignancy Al…
BACKGROUND: The classic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) feature of endometriomas is the shading sign, which is characterized by T2-shortening in ovarian cystic lesions that are hyperintense on T1-weighted images. The shading sign is infreq…