Yamakawa Y

No ORCID on file · 4 papers in corpus · active 1991-2016

Study types

  • article 2
  • other 2

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 4
article 2016
A case of small intestinal endometrioid adenocarcinoma
Surgical case reports ·doi:10.1186/s40792-016-0226-6

Endometriosis generally occurs in the ovary. Intestinal endometriosis is rare. About 1 % of all endometriosis cases become malignant. Malignant transformation of small intestinal endometriosis is very rare. A 55-year-old woman who underwent…

article 2011
Primary squamous cell carcinoma associated with ovarian endometriosis: a case report and literature review
International journal of clinical oncology ·doi:10.1007/s10147-011-0189-3

Primary squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) associated with ovarian endometriosis is extremely rare and has a poor prognosis due to insufficient information on the optimal postoperative treatment. Here, we describe the response of this tumor to t…

other 2001
Absence of estrogen receptor-alpha expression in human ovarian clear cell adenocarcinoma compared with ovarian serous, endometrioid, and mucinous adenocarcinoma
The American journal of surgical pathology ·doi:10.1097/00000478-200105000-00016

The mechanism that regulates growth in ovarian clear cell adenocarcinoma (CCA) is not well understood. A high incidence of concurrent endometriosis with CCA may indicate that estrogen is a growth promotor in CCA. To determine estrogen as a …

other 1991
[Clinicopathological analysis of endometrial carcinoma in young women]
Nihon Sanka Fujinka Gakkai zasshi

Endometrial carcinoma in 40 women under 40 years of age (group A), was analyzed clinicopathologically in comparison with that in 126 women over 50 years of age (group B). 1. The incidence of endometrial carcinoma in women under 40 years of …