Osaka city medical journal

Adenomyosis can cause severe menorrhagia, which is a common indicator of the need for hysterectomy. None of the ablative techniques developed over the last two decades are of use in treating menorrhagia in a uterus enlarged by deep adenomyo…

Changes in the specific antiendometrial IgM antibodies in an endometriotic patient, who were treated with leuproride acetate and in turn with Keishi-bukuyogan, were investigated by the flowcytometric analysis which was developed in our labo…

Endometriosis is one cause of infertility. The disease causes severe non-bacterial inflammation and adhesion in the ovarian tubes and/or referred reproductive organs, but a number of types of unexplained infertility without severe organic d…

In order to investigate an evidence for genetic disorders in endometriotic patients, eutopic endometrial stromal cells were cultured in vitro for more than 4 months and their antigenecities were characterized by flowcytometry. Eutopic strom…

From among tumors occurring in the ovaries, tumors originating in the gonadal stroma referred to as hormone-producing tumors produce estrogen (E). However, these were previously not considered to be hormone-producing tumors. Enzymatic histo…

In investigating the cause of infertility in patients with endometriosis, not only organic disturbances, but also other factors must be considered. I here discuss the participation of interleukin-1 (IL-1) in peritoneal fluid (PF) in inferti…

An immunohistochemical study was performed on the localization of carbonic anhydrase isozymes I and II (CA I and CA II, respectively) in oncocytoma and oncocytic epithelial cells. Tumors examined were those deserved to be called oncocytomas…