OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the diagnostic utility of conventional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-based characteristics and a texture analysis (TA) for discriminating between ovarian thecoma-fibroma groups (OTFGs) and ovarian granulosa cell tu…
A cotyledonoid dissecting leiomyoma (CDL) is a rare variant of a uterine smooth muscle cell tumor and is characterized by intramural and extrauterine growth patterns with dissection of the uterine myometrium.We encountered a case of a CDL w…
Few reports on malignant transformation of adenomyosis are available, and endometrioid adenocarcinoma arising from cystic adenomyosis is further rarely reported. We report a case of a 67-year-old asymptomatic woman who was referred to our h…
Young patients with complex atypical hyperplasia (CAH) or stage Ia, G1 adenocarcinoma (IaG1) of the endometrium, who desire to preserve fertility, can select the conservative therapy by oral progestin, medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA). How…
Of all of the epithelial ovarian cancers, clear cell carcinoma (CCC) of the ovary has the worst prognosis. We applied the oligonucleotide array technique to identify genes generally involved in CCC. Of the approximately 12,600 genes that we…
Using a cDNA microarray consisting of 23,040 genes, we analyzed gene-expression profiles of ovarian endometrial cysts from 23 patients in order to identify genes involved in endometriosis. By comparing expression patterns between endometrio…
Endometriosis may be the precursor of clear cell or endometrioid ovarian cancer. In this review, we focus on the prevalence of endometriosis in ovarian cancer and related clinical and epidemiological issues. According to 15 published report…