Nakano H

Tubo-ovarian abscess is an uncommon complication in pregnant women. In this report, we present a patient who developed a tubo-ovarian abscess during pregnancy following in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer (IVF-ET). Despite treatment …

The histology of ovarian tumors exhibits a wide variety of histological features. The histological classification of ovarian tumors by the World Health Organization (WHO) is based on histogenetic principles, and this classification categori…

BackgroundOvarian cancer arising from an endometriotic cyst in a postmenopausal woman under tamoxifen therapy is rare.CaseWe herein report the case of a 67-year-old woman with a history of breast cancer, taking tamoxifen citrate 20 mg/day f…

OBJECTIVE: To clarify the relationship between age, histological type, and size of ovarian tumors. METHOD: A review was made of 1648 cases of histopathologically diagnosed ovarian tumors and tumor-like lesions, and information on the age o…

ObjectiveThe purpose of this study was to demonstrate the incidence, the histopathological characteristics, and the proliferation activity of endometriosis and atypical endometriosis associated with ovarian carcinoma.MethodsMicroscopic slid…

ObjectiveTo assess the prostaglandin (PG) production on peritoneal fluid (PF) cells, phospholipase A2 (PLA2) activity of those cells in women with endometriosis was measured and compared with that of women without endometriosis.DesignProspe…

From 1979-1986, 110 patients with an ovarian cancer have been treated at Kyushu University Hospital. Sixty-eight of these patients with untreated primary adenocarcinoma of the ovary underwent a paraaortic lymph node (PAN) biopsy at the time…

Abstract In an effort to reduce undesirable bleeding during danazol treatment, we attempted to see any correlation between the frequency of bleeding and the starting period of danazol treatment during the menstrual cycle. We studied 57 wome…