Kazunori Ochiai

When compared with other epithelial ovarian cancers, the clinical characteristics of ovarian clear cell adenocarcinoma (CCC) include 1) a higher incidence among Japanese, 2) an association with endometriosis, 3) poor prognosis in advanced s…

AIM: Adenomyosis patients treated with dienogest are considered to be at higher risk of uterine bleeding; however, the mechanisms which cause severe uterine bleeding in those patients are unknown. This study aims to investigate the risk fac…

We previously reported that indoleamine-2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) is associated with paclitaxel resistance and that IDO serves as a marker of poor prognosis in ovarian serous adenocarcinomas (SA). In this study, to explore the role of IDO in th…

横隔膜子宮内膜症を病理学的に確認できた月経随伴性気胸を経験したので報告する.症例は44歳の女性で, 月経に伴い繰り返し気胸を発症するため, 精査に加療を目的として入院した, 入院時の胸部X線写真で右肺に脱気率20%の気胸を認めた.1996年6月に手術を施行した.胸腔鏡下に胸腔内を観察したところ, 右肺には異常所見を認めなかったが, 横隔膜の腱様部に多数の小孔を認めたため, 第6肋間に小開胸を追加し同部位を切除した.切除部の病理組織学的所見として, 子宮内膜に類似する管腔構造と…

Cyclic rats were hypophysectomized and their pituitaries transplanted beneath the kidney capsule on day 2 (day 1, ovulation); they were then either hysterectomized or sham hysterectomized (uterus intact rats) and injected sc daily with eith…