Kentaro Takahashi

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effect of serum from infertile and fertile patients with endometriosis on the development of 2-cell mouse embryos. PATIENTS: Serum was obtained from 26 infertile patients and 8 fertile patients with endometriosis…

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 t…

OBJECTIVE: To assess the usefulness of fat-saturated magnetic resonance (MR) imaging for detecting small endometrial implants. DESIGN: Prospective evaluation by conventional and fat-saturated MR imaging. SETTING: Shimane Medical Universit…

Assisted hatching (AHA) techniques were used in 67 patients who had repeatedly failed to achieve conception by conventional IVF-ET in spite of replacement by good quality embryos. The age of the female patients ranged from 28 to 44 years an…

Preoperative MRI using fat-saturation technique was performed in a patient with endometriosis. Endometrial implants as small as 3 mm were accurately diagnosed by MRI. The fat-saturation technique is useful for diagnosing small endometrioma.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effect of serum obtained before and after treatment for endometriosis on in vitro development of two-cell mouse embryos. DESIGN: Pretreatment and post-treatment comparison of mouse embryo development in serum sup…

Serum levels of CA 125 in 33 patients with progressive external endometriosis who were treated with 400 mg/day of Danazol for 16 weeks were assayed for an extended period (24-40 weeks), and changes in the CA 125 pattern were analyzed. Patte…

Serum CA 125 levels were assayed in 75 healthy female controls and 34 patients with external endometriosis prior to treatment, during treatment, and after treatment. The results of the assay showed that the mean pretreatment serum CA 125 le…

To study the clinical usefulness and false-positive results of CA 125 as a tumor marker of ovarian cancer, we measured serum CA 125 levels in 197 patients with gynecological diseases, 274 normal, pregnant and postpartum women, 14 patients w…

Abstract For a preoperative differentiation between leiomyomata uteri and adenomyosis, we measured serum levels of the antigen CA 125, which is specific to ovarian non‐mucinous epithelial carcinoma, in patients with benign gynecologic disea…

An accurate preoperative diagnosis of uterine adenomyosis is often difficult. We reviewed our experience with ultrasound evaluation of this pathological entity. Patients with histologically proven adenomyosis were studied to determine the u…

To differentiate pre-operatively between leiomyomata uteri and adenomyosis, we measured serum levels of an antigen (CA 125) common to most nonmucinous epithelial ovarian carcinoma in patients with benign uterine tumor (11 of leiomyomata ute…