Endometriosis is a chronic disease occurring during the reproductive stage of women.Although there is only limited association between endometriosis and gynecological cancers with regard to clinical features, the molecular basis of the rela…
Ovarian endometrial cysts, one of the typical manifestations of endometriosis, are generated by the retention of cyclic hemorrhages and are classified as tumor-like lesions rather than neoplasms. Clonality analysis provides important inform…
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to examine the occurrence of ovarian endometriosis in epithelial ovarian cancer in Japan. METHOD: The presence of ovarian endometriosis was determined by reviewing the sections of resected specime…
A 32-year-old woman with a history of dilation and curettage for missed abortion at 31 years old had sudden hemoptysis during menstruation on May 25, 1993. She had catamenial hemoptysis again, and was admitted to our hospital on July 21, 19…
A total of 128 patients with adenomyosis were examined clinically and histologically to investigate the pathogenesis of subserosal adenomyosis. In this study 15 (11.7%) cases were classified as subserosal adenomyosis on the basis of localiz…