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Carcinoma arising from deep infiltrating endometriosis (DIE) and extending into the rectovaginal septum is extremely rare. Its treatment requires extensive surgical resection and adjuvant chemotherapy. Herein, we present a case demonstratin…

A woman in her seventies presented with mucous hematochezia. Colonoscopy revealed a poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma in the upper rectum. Immunohistochemical staining showed CK7 positivity and CK20/CDX2 negativity, findings atypical for…

Borderline epithelial ovarian tumors are a distinct pathologic entity characterized by increased epithelial proliferation and nuclear atypia, but without frank stromal invasion. Borderline tumor (BT) is now considered to represent an interm…

Evolution from the first life on earth to humans took ~3.8 billion years. During the time there have been countless struggles among the species. Mycobacterium tuberculosis was the last major uncontrollable species against the human public h…

Objectives: Needle and laser acupuncture are often used to improve the success rate of assisted reproductive technology (ART). This study examined whether needle or laser acupuncture ameliorated the emotional distress experienced by inferti…

IntroductionThe standard management for pelvic abscess or spondylodiscitis after reconstructive surgery previously involved total mesh excision, abscess drainage, and intravenous antibiotic administration. However, only few reports exist re…

Ureteral involvement is rare, with an estimated frequency of 10-14% in cases of deep infiltrating endometriosis. An important complication of ureteral involvement is asymptomatic loss of renal function. We reported that a 49-year-oId woman …

INTRODUCTION: Although endometriosis is a benign disease, it shares some features with cancers, such as invasiveness and the potential to metastasize. This study sought to investigate the epithelial-mesenchymal transition status in human en…

AIM: The aim of this study was to compare the effects of pre-surgical medication with dienogest or leuprorelin on post-surgical ovarian function. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We conducted an exploratory study in two centers in Japan that comprised…

IntroductionIsolated torsion of the fallopian tube without an ovarian abnormality is an uncommon event, with an incidence of approximately 1 in 1,500,000 females. Isolated torsion of the fallopian tube occurs mostly in reproductive-aged wom…

A 34-year-old, gravida 0 para 0 Japanese woman visited a regional hospital complaining of dysmenorrhea, hematuria during menstruation, and right inguinal pain. She had a history of dysmenorrhea and three prior rounds of in vitro fertilizati…

The pathogenesis of endometriosis remains poorly understood at least in part because early stages of the disease process are difficult to investigate. Previous studies have proposed a three-dimensional fibrin matrix culture model to study h…

A 34-year-old woman presented with pain during menstruation and was diagnosed with endometriosis of the lower rectum. Despite treatment with an LH-RH agonist, she was unable to become pregnant and surgical removal of her endometriosis was r…

Endometrial stromal sarcomas are rare malignant mesenchymal tumors that usually develop in the uterine corpus and occasionally arise at various extrauterine sites. This report describes the first case of primary extrauterine endometrial str…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the clonality of ectopic gland cells in peritoneal endometriosis. DESIGN: Prospective study. University hospital. PATIENT(S): Seventeen women with surgically diagnosed endometriosis. INTERVENTION(S): Samples of …

The effects of a GnRH agonist and danazol on bone mineral content (BMC) in Japanese women with endometriosis were investigated. Nineteen women with laparoscopically confirmed endometriosis were treated with buserelin (900 micrograms/d admin…