Shiro Suzuki

OBJECTIVE: This multi-center retrospective study aimed to clarify the characteristics, diagnostic accuracy, treatment outcomes, and prognostic factors of uterine serous carcinoma (USC) in Japanese women. METHODS: The medical records of 193…

OBJECTIVE: The impact of systematic retroperitoneal lymphadenectomy (SRL) remains controversial in patients with advanced ovarian clear-cell carcinoma (CCC) who are optimally debulked. METHODS: Between 1986 and 2017, a total of 3,227 women…

The prognostic nutritional index (PNI), which reflects preoperative malnutrition, is useful for predicting the incidence of postoperative complications and has been reported in recent years to predict the long-term prognosis of various mali…

Endometriosis, characterized by the presence of extra-uterine endometrium, is a common gynecologic disorder in reproductive-age women. Although the detailed molecular mechanism of etiology remains unelucidated, recent studies have gradually…

Fibrosarcoma is an extremely rare malignant sex-cord stromal tumor. Fibrosarcoma is generally unknown as an estrogen producing tumor. This report presents, for the first time, a case of estrogen producing ovarian fibrosarcoma in an 83-year-…

INTRODUCTION: The aim of this study was to evaluate the oncologic outcome of women with stage I ovarian endometrioid carcinoma (EC) who underwent fertility-sparing surgery (FSS). MATERIALS AND NETHODS: Between 1986 and 2017, a total of 322…

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to investigate the clinical characteristics of young patients with stage I clear-cell carcinoma (CCC) and evaluate the prognostic factors and effects of fertility-sparing surgery (FSS) using propensity s…

Kinesin family member 20A (KIF20A), which is involved in cytokinesis and intracellular transportation, has been recently reported to be upregulated in several malignancies and may contribute to chemotherapeutic resistance. We examined the d…