Miyazawa M

No ORCID on file · 5 papers in corpus · active 2015-2023

Study types

  • article 1
  • case-report 1

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 2
  • endometrioma 1
case-report 2023
Journal of surgical case reports ·doi:10.1093/jscr/rjad421

Catamenial pneumothorax (CP) is reported to be caused by the endometriosis of diaphragm, lung and parietal pleura. Therefore, the resection of endometriotic lesion in these organs is reported as effective surgical treatment. Overlooking of …

2021
International journal of molecular sciences ·doi:10.3390/ijms222011220

Ovarian cancers include several disease subtypes and patients often present with advanced metastatic disease and a poor prognosis. New biomarkers for early diagnosis and targeted therapy are, therefore, urgently required. This study uses an…

2019
Journal of ovarian research ·doi:10.1186/s13048-019-0481-9

BackgroundOvarian clear cell carcinoma (OCCC) is the second most common ovarian cancer after serous carcinoma in Japan. OCCC has a more unfavorable clinical outcome due to a poor response to platinum-based chemotherapy, compared with serous…

2016
Oncology letters ·doi:10.3892/ol.2016.5082

Thymidine phosphorylase (TP) is structurally similar to platelet-derived endothelial cell growth factor, and it activates 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) prodrugs and also promotes angiogenesis. In the present study, the possibility of using TP expre…

article 2015
Gynecologic oncology ·doi:10.1016/j.ygyno.2015.10.012

OBJECTIVE: While a certain fraction of endometriomas can develop de novo epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) such as clear cell carcinoma (OCCC), there is currently no useful biomarker available for early detection of OCCC from endometriomas. T…