H Sugimori

Objective: To evaluate the role of local immunity in women with minimal endometriosis. Methods: Uterine endometrium and endometrial implants were obtained simultaneously from 30 infertile women with minimal endometriosis and examined immuno…

OBJECTIVE: To examine biologic and proliferative properties of adenomyotic lesions and to determine whether adenomyotic lesions originate in the basal layer of the eutopic endometrium. METHODS: We examined eutopic and ectopic endometria fro…

To evaluate the clinical significance of serum SSEA-1 level, the antigen level was measured in sera of obstetric and gynecologic patients. A positive rate was low in patients with endometriosis (9.1%), myoma uteri (0%), benign ovarian tumor…

To evaluate whether elevated serum CA125 levels have specificity to ovarian malignancies, CA125 levels were measured in sera of 48 malignancies, 56 benign diseases and 40 healthy women. Furthermore serum CA125 levels were serially followed …

Pelvic endometriosis associated with massive ascites is an unusual occurrence. Only 12 cases have been reported since 1954 when Brews first described this entity. The authors present two cases recently encountered at Saga Medical School Hos…

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…