Nagai T

AIM: To investigate the efficacy and safety of long-term adjusted low-dose gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist therapy (GnRH agonist drawback therapy) with nafarelin acetate in patients with uterine fibroids and/or adenomyosis with menst…

Endometriosis has several distinguishing features in the ectopic endometrium, including chronic inflammation and fibrosis. According to the retrograde menstruation theory, endometriotic cells are derived from eutopic endometrial cells, and …

Repeated tissue injury and repair and fibrosis play a pivotal role in endometriosis. Fibrotic tissue consists of extracellular matrix proteins, regulated by transcriptional factors promoting cell proliferation and survival. Periostin is one…

Several features exist that distinguish endometriotic cells from eutopic endometrial cells. Progesterone resistance is one of the main distinguishing features, although how progesterone resistance affects the phenotype of endometriotic cell…

Intrathoracic endometriosis is classified into pleurodiaphragmatic endometriosis and bronchopulmonary endometriosis. Bronchopulmonary endometriosis is rare. Computed tomography (CT) findings of bronchopulmonary endometriosis are lung nodule…

In 2014, we published an article titled "Novel uterine sarcoma preoperative diagnosis score predicts the need for surgery in patients presenting with a uterine mass" on the preoperative diagnosis of uterine sarcoma, in the SpringerPlus (Nag…

Preoperative diagnosis of uterine sarcoma is very difficult, and currently, its diagnostic accuracy is not satisfactory. It is therefore important to perform surgery and establish the pathological diagnosis if the clinical findings and vari…