Osamu Ishiko

No ORCID on file · 11 papers in corpus · active 2000-2007

Study types

  • article 11

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 5
  • adenomyosis 5
  • chronic_pelvic_pain 1
article 2007

Objective: Microwave endometrial ablation is widely used instead of hysterectomy for menorrhagia. However, it can not be used for large myomas or deep adenomyosis. To treat myomas and adenomyosis, we developed a transcervical microwave abla…

article 2006
·doi:10.1016/j.ics.2005.10.003
article 2005
Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Research ·doi:10.1111/j.1447-0756.2005.00303.x

AIM: We investigated microwave power and duration of use, which does not affect extrauterine organs, in order to treat organic menorrhagia caused by myomas or adenomyosis. METHODS: Electric fields around a microwave applicator at a frequenc…

article 2004
·doi:10.1016/j.ijgo.2003.11.009
article 2004
Osaka city medical journal

Adenomyosis can cause severe menorrhagia, which is a common indicator of the need for hysterectomy. None of the ablative techniques developed over the last two decades are of use in treating menorrhagia in a uterus enlarged by deep adenomyo…

article 2002
Archives of gynecology and obstetrics ·doi:10.1007/s004040100243
article 2002
·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(02)03965-1
article 2001
·doi:10.3380/jmicrowavesurg.19.51

A curved microwave applicator was specifically developed for microwave endometrial ablation for the uterus with distorted cavity. The applicator was transcervically introduced to a uterine cavity of a surgical specimen with an intramural my…

article 2001
Oncology reports ·doi:10.3892/or.8.6.1317

The expression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) were immunohistochemically examined in both pelvic and extrapelvic endometriotic lesions. Different expressions of VEGF and COX-2 were observed in both…

article 2001
·doi:10.1016/s0301-2115(01)00290-1
article 2000
Oncology reports ·doi:10.3892/or.7.3.651

Twenty-five patients with ovarian clear cell carcinoma (CC-Ca) were enrolled in this study, and tumor cell expression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and platelet-derived endothelial cell growth factor (PD-ECGF) was investigate…