Fujimoto M

Cells survive and reproduce by coping with acute or chronic exposure to a fixed elevated temperature or fluctuating temperatures. These properties are one of the main evolutionary forces and involve the heat shock response. This response is…

Lynch syndrome (LS), which is an autosomal dominant disorder caused primarily by germline pathogenic variants of mismatch repair (MMR) genes, cases a number of malignancies. Hematologic malignancies are not included as related tumors of LS …

Abdominal wall endometrioma (AWE) results from endometrial-like tissue implants in the abdominal wall after uterine surgery. While the diagnosis can be challenging, an abdominal mass at the site of a previous incision accompanied by cyclica…

BACKGROUND: CA15-3 is often elevated in breast cancer recurrence and rarely in ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS). We report a case of DCIS with elevated CA15-3 levels, which was diagnosed after over 2 years of follow-up. CASE PRESENTATION: A…

症例は44歳，女性．主訴は周期的な右季肋部痛．腹部MRIで肝周囲に多発性の嚢胞性病変を認め，子宮内膜症に特徴的なshadingの所見（T1強調像で高信号，T2強調像で高信号から低信号が混在）より肝子宮内膜症と診断した．GnRHアナログによるホルモン療法を施行し右季肋部痛は消失，病変の縮小も得られた．肝子宮内膜症は稀な疾患であるが，その診断には痛みと月経周期との関連を聴取すること，およびMRIによる画像診断が有用である．

PROBLEM: To determine whether infertile patients with endometriosis have serum antiendometrial antibodies. METHODS: Sera from 40 infertile patients with or without endometriosis were tested by cell enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)…