Matsuyama T

OBJECTIVE: Adenomyosis-related infertility is increasingly being diagnosed, and surgical intervention has been suggested to improve fertility. Elastography, a noninvasive ultrasound technique, is promising for diagnosing and guiding the res…

BackgroundRobotic simple hysterectomy (RSH) is the most common robotic gynecologic surgery in the United States. Uterine manipulators are commonly used to handle the uterus during laparoscopic surgery, but few studies have examined their ne…

To test the hypothesis that bacterial contamination of menstrual blood could be a local biologic event in the development of endometriosis, menstrual blood was cultured and bacterial endotoxin was measured in menstrual blood and peritoneal …

BACKGROUND: Information regarding macrophage-mediated regulation of hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) by ovarian steroid hormones in women with endometriosis is limited. Therefore, we investigated the regulation of HGF by steroid hormones in i…

BACKGROUND: We investigated the expression of the hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) gene and protein by the stromal cells derived from women with or without endometriosis and its regulation by interleukin-6 (IL-6) and tumour necrosis factor al…

BACKGROUND: The different macromolecules as secreted by macrophages in the pelvic environment are believed to enhance the growth of endometriosis. However, the possible mediator that stimulates macrophages for the production of different gr…

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…

Carboquone (CQ) was administered to 20 patients with ovarian cancer as a main drug in the multiple chemotherapy. Picibanil and Futraful (FT-207) were medicated simultaneously. CQ was given 3 mg each, 2 times a week, up to total 30 mg intrav…