Toshihiro Higuchi

No ORCID on file · 5 papers in corpus · active 1995-2008

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  • article 5

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  • endometriosis 5
article 2008
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research ·doi:10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-07-1614

PURPOSE: Endometriotic cysts are known to transform into ovarian cancers, such as clear cell and endometrioid carcinomas. We hypothesized that an iron-rich environment produced by the repetition of hemorrhage in the endometriotic cysts duri…

article 2005
Radiology ·doi:10.1148/radiol.2343031366

PURPOSE: To retrospectively evaluate the accuracy of magnetic resonance (MR) imaging in depicting posterior cul-de-sac obliteration in patients with endometriosis. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Institutional review board approval was not required …

article 2003
Human Reproduction ·doi:10.1093/humrep/deg076

A clinical case that suggested the involvement of blood coagulation cascades in the inflammation reaction induced by leakage of ovarian endometriotic cysts was encountered. Here, a rapid elevation in plasma D-dimer level (119.6 micro g/ml) …

article 1996
American journal of reproductive immunology (New York, N.Y. : 1989) ·doi:10.1111/j.1600-0897.1996.tb00017.x

PROBLEM: To determine whether infertile patients with endometriosis have serum antiendometrial antibodies. METHODS: Sera from 40 infertile patients with or without endometriosis were tested by cell enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA),…

article 1995
Fertility and Sterility ·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(16)57296-3

ObjectiveTo investigate the expression of messenger RNA (mRNA) for gonadal steroid hormone receptors in the human pelvic peritoneum.DesignAnalysis of estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR), and androgen receptor (AR) mRNA expres…