Yoon Hee Cho

BACKGRUOUND: Recombinant human follicle-stimulating hormone (rhFSH) is commonly used to treat female infertility, but its short half-life necessitates multiple doses. Even corifollitropin alfa, with an extended half-life, requires supplemen…

Background: Myoma, adenomyoma, and endometriosis are estrogen-dependent gynecologic diseases and result in reproductive dysfunction and pelvic pain in women. However, these gynecologic diseases have a complex and poorly understood etiology,…

Objective: Studies on leiomyoma of uterus and phthalates, one of the estrogen-dependent diseases, have shown equivocal results. However, in our case-control study, phthalate exposure in patients with uterine leiomyoma was found to be higher…

We assessed the urinary concentration of 16 phthalate metabolites in 57 women with and without uterine leiomyoma (n = 30 and 27; respectively) to determine the association between phthalate exposure and uterine leiomyoma. To evaluate exposu…