Suzuki K

Estradiol is a therapeutic agent for treatment of perimenopausal symptoms and osteoporosis. Conventional oral or intravenous administration of estradiol has many problems, such as, metabolization in gastrointestinal tract and liver, pain by…

A 40-year-old female had right-sided pneumothorax. She was treated with a chest tube. On the 2nd day, her menstruation started. Because of a persistent air leak, she underwent a thoracoscopic operation on the 15th day. During the operation,…

Patterns of allele loss (loss of heterozygosity (LOH)) were studied to identify the genetic backgrounds underlying the two putative carcinogenic pathways of ovarian clear-cell adenocarcinoma: carcinomas thought to arise in endometriosis (en…

Vasculitis (angiitis) is a systemic autoimmune disease that often causes fatal symptoms. We aimed to isolate cDNA markers that would be useful for diagnosing not only vasculitis but also other autoimmune diseases. For this purpose, we used …

OBJECTIVE: To report a rare complication of GnRH agonist therapy for intestinal endometriosis. DESIGN: Case report. SETTING: University hospital. PATIENT(S): A 45-year-old nulliparous Japanese woman with catamenial digestive symptoms. I…

We report a case of intrinsic-type ureteral endometriosis in a 28-year-old woman. She visited our hospital, complaining of lower abdominal pain. Drip infusion pyelography (DIP) showed left hydronephrosis, and left retrograde pyelography rev…

We have reported the usefulness of percutaneous or transurethral whole layer core biopsy (WLCB) of bladder wall for staging of invasive bladder cancer. We have applied WLCB to 3 cases of paravesical tumor with good results. The first case w…

We present the second reported patient with cerebral endometriosis. She had repetitive partial seizures on the first day of her menstrual cycle. The seizures were controlled by danazol after the causative lesions were surgically removed.

A 32-year-old female visited our clinic with the chief complaints of macroscopic hematuria and pollakisuria in February 18, 1987. Cystoscopic examination revealed findings of cystitis but bleeding from the ureteral orifice was not observed.…

We present a rare case of a 55 year old female with an osteoclast-type giant cell tumor of the endometrium associated with leiomyoma and adenomyosis. Multinucleated giant cells and mononuclear stromal cells reacted with vimentin and alpha-1…

A 23 year-old woman with macrohematuria and pain on urination around menstrual period was admitted.Female sterility and bladder tumor had been found by a gynecologist prior to admission.Vesical endometriosis was strongly suspected on the bs…