K Sugimura

Endometriosis with ascites is a rare clinical presentation. We describe a case of a 39-year-old nulliparous woman who presented with hypogastric pain. Laboratory analysis showed an elevation of CA-125 and CA19-9 serum concentrations. Pelvic…

To assess the usefulness of fat-saturated magnetic resonance (MR) imaging in detecting small endometrial implants, 258 pigmented lesions of endometriosis from 80 consecutive patients with histopathologically diagnosed pelvic endometriosis w…

OBJECTIVE: Various types of malignancy can develop in patients with endometriosis. Enhancing mural nodules have been reported as an imaging characteristic of malignant transformations. We evaluated contrast-enhanced MR imaging to determine …

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and serum levels of CA-125 can be used to evaluate patients with endometriomas before initiating medical treatment. DESIGN: Comparative study before and after medical treatme…

To determine whether the cyst fluid characteristics of endometrioma can be evaluated by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), 36 endometriomas obtained from 24 patients (age range 21-43 years; mean 34 years) were studied. MRI was performed < 2 …

OBJECTIVE: Our goal was to investigate the usefulness of MRI in predicting the response of endometriomas to hormone therapy. MATERIALS AND METHODS: MRI and laparoscopy at the onset of treatment and follow-up MRI after 6 months of hormone th…

We evaluated the usefulness of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for assessing the response of patients with endometriomas to medical therapy. MRI was performed before and after treatment in 20 consecutive patients with at least one endometr…

Fat-saturation magnetic resonance (MR) imaging for detection and characterization of pelvic endometriosis was prospectively investigated in 35 women with a clinical diagnosis of the disease. Large endometrioma was diagnosed when the lesion …

We evaluated the use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the pre-operative staging of 15 endometrial cysts. The effect of the iron content on the T1 and T2 relaxation times was assessed in confirmed endometrial cysts employing a 0.15 T M…