Kusunoki M

No ORCID on file · 3 papers in corpus · active 2013-2023

Study types

  • article 2
  • case-report 1

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 3
case-report 2023
Mismatch repair protein deficiency in endometriosis: Precursor of endometriosis-associated ovarian cancer in women with lynch syndrome
Taiwanese journal of obstetrics & gynecology ·doi:10.1016/j.tjog.2022.09.015

OBJECTIVE: We aimed to elucidate the pathogenesis of ovarian cancer through the loss of mismatch repair (MMR) proteins in women with Lynch syndrome (LS) in this report. CASE REPORT: Two women with LS underwent surgery for synchronous endom…

article 2021
Hemoglobin-induced continuous activation of macrophages in endometriotic cysts: a potential mechanism of endometriosis development and carcinogenesis
Medical molecular morphology ·doi:10.1007/s00795-020-00272-4

Endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory disease. Endometriotic cysts contain hemoglobin (Hb) and infiltrated macrophages, indicating that the metabolism of Hb by macrophages may play an important role in the inflammation of endometriotic cy…

article 2013
Scar Endometriosis in a Patient With Bladder Exstrophy
International surgery ·doi:10.9738/intsurg-d-12-00011.1

Endometriosis is an ectopic occurrence of tissue morphologically and functionally resembling endometrial tissue in regions outside the uterine cavity. Although scar endometriosis after surgery has been shown to be most common among all the …