Masui. The Japanese journal of anesthesiology

We report anesthetic management of a 38-year-old woman with pulmonary thromboembolism for total hysterectomy. She had been taking oral contraceptives for adenomyosis of the uterus. She had thrombi in the arteries from pulmonary trunk to bil…

BACKGROUND: We evaluated the effectiveness of low-dose patient-controlled epidural analgesia (PCEA) in the patients undergoing laparoscopic gynecological surgery, and investigated the difference of postoperative pain between patients for la…

Endometriosis extending into the thoracic cage or the lung might induce defect of the tissue and show catamenial symptoms, such as pneumothorax or hemothorax. These events usually occur 48 to 72 hours after menstruation. A 37-year-old woman…

We experienced a case of the hydrothorax occurring after a long gynecologic laparoscopical surgery. The patient was a 36-year-old woman, weighing 51 kg and 151 cm in height. She had received a gynecological laparoscopy with no complication …