Lee WL

Peng-Hui Wang, an editorial board member at the International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, had no role in the peer review process or decision to publish this article. The other authors declare that they have no conflicts of interes…

Endometriosis, manifested by pain and infertility, is a chronic inflammatory disease, associated with a large disability of daily living, causing a socio-economic diastrophic problem and burden. The main goal of therapy attempts to reduce p…

OBJECTIVE: Endometriosis-associated epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) often includes clear cell carcinoma and endometrioid-type carcinoma. Due to the low incidence of primary mucinous EOC and absence of association between endometriosis and p…

Clear cell carcinoma of the ovary (ovarian clear cell carcinoma [OvCCC]), one of subtypes of epithelial ovarian carcinoma (EOC), is often accompanied with endometriosis, which is also called as endometriosis-associated EOC (EAEOC) and frequ…

The use of weekly chemotherapy for the treatment of patients with advanced-stage serous-type epithelial Tubo-ovarian cancer (ETOC), and primary peritoneal serous carcinoma (PPSC) is acceptable as the front-line postoperative chemotherapy af…

Intrauterine adhesion (IUA), fibrosis, and scarring resulting from damage to the endometrium is a rare but serious clinical disease, contributing to a significant impairment of reproductive function. Uterine instrumentation, especially that…

The current standard therapy of epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) is the combination of surgery and multiagent chemotherapy with/without adding targeted therapy. After treatment, response rate is high and nearly all patients can achieve compl…

Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a common endocrinopathy, characterized by chronic anovulation, hyperandrogenism, and multiple small subcapsular cystic follicles in the ovary during ultrasonography, and affects 5-10% of women of reproduc…

Laparoscopy, one of minimally invasive procedures, is a commonly used procedure in diagnosis and management of various kinds of clinical problems, including gynecologic organ-related diseases. Compared with conventional exploratory laparoto…

This article aims to test the hypothesis that the risk of female genital tract related cancer (gynecological cancer: GC) or breast cancer (BC) of women with chronic kidney disease (CKD) might be different from that of those women without CK…

This study was conducted to determine the risk of chronic kidney disease (CKD) among women with endometriosis in Taiwan. We conducted a retrospective cohort study using the National Health Insurance Research Database of Taiwan. A total of 2…

This article aims to test the hypothesis that the risk of epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) in women with endometriosis might be changed by enrolling different population. A nationwide 14-year historic cohort study using the National Health I…

BACKGROUND: Epidemiological evidence of relationships between endometriosis and epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) has been obtained mainly from Western countries. Our goal was to determine the risk of EOC due to endometriosis in Taiwanese wom…

OBJECTIVE: There is a possible correlation between endometriosis and an increased risk of epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC), but many uncertainties remain, including race, exposure or surveillance time, and surgical confirmation. Therefore, w…

Uterine adenomyosis and/or adenomyoma is characterized by the presence of heterotopic endometrial glands and stroma within the myometrium, >2.5 mm in depth in the myometrium or more than one microscopic field at 10 times magnification from …