Iwai K
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· 10 papers in corpus
· active 2014-2024
Study types
- article 2
- other 2
- review 2
Condition tags
- endometriosis 5
- dysmenorrhea 1
- endometrioma 1
- adenomyosis 1
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Frequent coauthors
- Yamada Y 9
- Kobayashi H 8
- Kana Iwai 6
- Naoki Kawahara 6
- Yuki Yamada 6
- Niiro E 6
- Hiroshi Kobayashi 5
- Morioka S 5
- Ryuji Kawaguchi 4
- Kawaguchi R 4
other
2024
BACKGROUND: Endometriosis-associated ovarian cancer (EAOC) is a well-known type of cancer that arises from ovarian endometrioma (OE). OE contains iron-rich fluid in its cysts due to repeated hemorrhages in the ovaries. However, distinguishi…
2024
BackgroundUterine leiomyomas are common for reproductive-aged women and affect women's quality of life due to heavy menstrual bleeding or dysmenorrhea. Leiomyomas grow according to estradiol exposure and decrease after post-menopause. In ca…
review
2023
Obstructed hemivagina and ipsilateral renal anomaly (OHVIRA) is a rare malformation that not only causes severe menstrual cramps shortly after menarche but can also lead to endometriosis and infection in the future. We report a case of OHVI…
other
2019
BACKGROUND: Common cancerous histological types associated with endometriosis are clear cell carcinoma (CCC) and endometrioid carcinoma (EC). CCC is regarded as an aggressive, chemoresistant histological subtype. Magnetic resonance imaging …
article
2019
We aimed to retrospectively analyze the risk factors of a continuous dienogest (DNG) therapy for serious unpredictable bleeding in patients with symptomatic adenomyosis. This is a retrospective study based on data extracted from medical rec…
2018
Targeting non-oncogenes may result in the selective death of cancer cells. Clear cell carcinoma of the ovary (CCC) may exhibit resistance against conventional chemotherapy and is associated with poor prognosis. The aim of the present report…
2018
Cases of mucinous ovarian cancer are predominantly resistant to chemotherapies. The present review summarizes current knowledge of the therapeutic potential of targeting the Wingless (WNT) pathway, with particular emphasis on preclinical an…
2017
The present review focuses on the current status of molecular pathology in high-grade serous cancer (HGSC) and preneoplastic conditions. This article reviews the English-language literature on HGSC, precursor, fallopian tubal epithelium, se…
review
2014
Comparison of the transcriptomes and proteomes of the decidualization-specific genes that express high vs low levels of the eutopic and ectopic endometrium of women with endometriosis compared with controls, could be useful in understanding…
article
2014
There is now accumulating evidence that endometriosis is a disease associated with an epigenetic disorder. Genomic imprinting is an epigenetic phenomenon known to regulate DNA methylation of either maternal or paternal alleles. We hypothesi…