Ralf Bützow
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· 11 papers in corpus
· active 2011-2023
Study types
- article 8
- letter 1
- other 1
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- endometriosis 9
- infertility 2
- adenomyosis 2
- dysmenorrhea 1
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article
2023
BACKGROUND: Endometriosis is a common, chronic disease among fertile-aged women. Disease course may be highly invasive, requiring extensive surgery. The etiology of endometriosis remains elusive, though a high level of heritability is well …
2022
Polygenic risk scores (PRS) for epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) have the potential to improve risk stratification. Joint estimation of Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) effects in models could improve predictive performance over standard…
other
2022
BACKGROUND: Clear cell and endometrioid ovarian carcinomas (OCC and OEC, respectively) have a presumed origin in endometriosis and share molecular alterations with each other and with their endometrial counterparts. The Cancer Genome Atlas …
article
2018
Abstract Uterine adenomyosis is a condition in which ectopic endometrial glands are present in myometrial stroma surrounded by smooth muscle cell hyperplasia. Foci of adenomyosis growing as a tumor like mass are called adenomyomas. Uterine …
article
2018
Abstract Uterine adenomyosis is a relatively common disorder characterized by the abnormal presence of endometrial glands and stroma in the myometrium. The estimated prevalence of adenomyosis varies between 20-30% in hysterectomy specimens.…
article
2015
ObjectiveTo evaluate whether endometriosis-associated genetic variation affects risk of ovarian cancer.DesignPooled genetic analysis.SettingUniversity hospital.Patient(s)Genetic data from 46,176 participants (15,361 ovarian cancer cases and…
article
2015
Endometriosis is an estrogen dependent disease, which causes chronic inflammation and may lead to pelvic pain and infertility. Women with endometriosis have a 1.5 to 2-fold risk for ovarian epithelial cancer. The risk is increased especiall…
article
2015
Epidemiological studies have demonstrated associations between endometriosis and certain histotypes of ovarian cancer, including clear cell, low-grade serous and endometrioid carcinomas. We aimed to determine whether the observed associatio…
article
2015
Epidemiological studies have demonstrated associations between endometriosis and certain histotypes of ovarian cancer, including clear cell, low-grade serous and endometrioid carcinomas. We aimed to determine whether the observed associatio…
article
2011
letter
2011