Liu JH

Invasive lobular cancer (ILC) of the breast is the second most common type of invasive breast cancer. Clinical determination of the growth pattern of ILC of the breast is difficult. Furthermore, the ILC of the breast has a unique metastatic…

Platelets are reprogrammed by cancer via a process called education, which favors cancer development. The transcriptional profile of tumor-educated platelets (TEPs) is skewed and therefore practicable for cancer detection. This intercontine…

BackgroundEmerging studies have found inconsistent results on the potential relationship between cigarette smoking and dysmenorrhea. Therefore, the aim of this study was to quantitatively synthesize the previous findings on the preceding re…

BackgroundSeveral studies suggest that resistance to progesterone may contribute to the pathophysiology of endometriosis. Progesterone mediates its biological activity via the 2 progesterone receptor (PR) isoforms (PR-A and PR-B). Effects o…

Objective. To study the reproductive outcomes of modified laparoscopic fimbrioplasty (MLF), a surgical technique designed to increase the working surface area of the fimbriated end of the fallopian tube. We postulated that an improvement in…

PurposeTo evaluate the feasibility of enhanced T2 star-weighted angiography (ESWAN) in differentiating endometrial from non-endometrial cysts.MethodsForty-nine patients with 60 histopathologically proven ovarian cystic lesions underwent pel…

ObjectiveTo examine endocrine and clinical responses to long-term administration of RU486 in patients with endometriosis.DesignProspective open trial.SettingFaculty practice of the authors.Patients, participantsSix normally cycling women wi…