Nihon rinsho. Japanese journal of clinical medicine

Gynecological malignances include cervical, uterine (sarcoma), ovarian, vaginal, and vulvar cancers are among the most common cancers in women. Advanced and recurrent cases of these malignancies have poor prognosis and hence new types of tr…

Endometriosis is one of the most common gynecological diseases and is frequently associated with pelvic pain and infertility. Surgical and endocrine therapies successfully suppress pelvic pain, but it often recurs after completion of treatm…

Gn-RH agonist therapy is widely used for treatment of endometriosis. However, it is well known that there are some side effects due to too much suppress of plasma sex steroid hormone levels. The decrease of the BMD (bone mineral density) is…

Gynecological anemia is caused by hypermenorrhea. Not only gynecological diseases such as uterine myoma, adenomyosis and endometrial hyperplasia but also polymenorrhea often show hypermenorrhea resulted in iron-deficiency anemia. Pregnant w…

Progestogen is a very important steroid hormone which has roles of supporting pregnancy secreted from ovary and placenta. From 1930, a lot of progestogens are compounded for clinical use. Compounded progestogens have not only progesterone e…

The hypoestrogenic state induced by gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist(GnRHa) has been shown to be effective in the treatment of uterine leiomyoma and endometriosis but to induce bone loss. The BMD significantly decreased from baseline(…

Dysmenorrhea is commonly observed in women and it reduces their quality of life. Most of dysmenorrhea is based on the disease of endometriosis, uterine myoma, uterine anomalies etc. and some cases are functional. The functional dysmenorrhea…