Published in Asian Cardiovasc Thorac Ann on June 01, 2002
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Brain protection during ascending aortic repair for Stanford type A acute aortic dissection surgery. Nationwide analysis in Japan. Circ J (2014) 1.47
Tailored laparoscopic resection for suspected gastric gastrointestinal stromal tumors. Surgery (2009) 1.46
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Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder after adult-to-adult living donor liver transplant: case series and review of literature. Leuk Lymphoma (2010) 1.41
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Epicardial maze procedure on the beating heart with an infrared coagulator. Ann Thorac Surg (2005) 1.39
Erythropoietin protects the central nervous system during prolonged hypothermic circulatory arrest: an experimental study in a canine model. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2006) 1.38
Anxiety and depression after thoracic aortic surgery or coronary artery bypass. Asian Cardiovasc Thorac Ann (2013) 1.38
Bortezomib-induced enzyme-targeted radiation therapy in herpesvirus-associated tumors. Nat Med (2008) 1.37
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Immunohistochemical analysis of MDM2 and CDK4 distinguishes low-grade osteosarcoma from benign mimics. Mod Pathol (2010) 1.30
Management of infected grafts and aneurysms of the aorta. Ann Vasc Surg (2005) 1.30
Arabidopsis HsfA1 transcription factors function as the main positive regulators in heat shock-responsive gene expression. Mol Genet Genomics (2011) 1.29
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Periostin deposition in the stroma of invasive and intraductal neoplasms of the pancreas. Mod Pathol (2008) 1.28
A phase I study of adoptive immunotherapy for recurrent non-small-cell lung cancer patients with autologous gammadelta T cells. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg (2010) 1.27
Screening for mutations in CYP4V2 gene in Japanese patients with Bietti's crystalline corneoretinal dystrophy. Am J Ophthalmol (2005) 1.27
Helicobacter pylori infection is significantly associated with metabolic syndrome in the Japanese population. Am J Gastroenterol (2008) 1.26
Coexistent emphysema delays the decrease of vital capacity in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Respir Med (2009) 1.25
Downregulation of microRNA-200 in EBV-associated gastric carcinoma. Cancer Res (2010) 1.25
Periostin is expressed in pericryptal fibroblasts and cancer-associated fibroblasts in the colon. J Histochem Cytochem (2008) 1.25
Metabolomic anatomy of an animal model revealing homeostatic imbalances in dyslipidaemia. Mol Biosyst (2011) 1.24
CpG island methylation status in gastric carcinoma with and without infection of Epstein-Barr virus. Clin Cancer Res (2006) 1.23
Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-encoded BARF1 gene is expressed in nasopharyngeal carcinoma and EBV-associated gastric carcinoma tissues in the absence of lytic gene expression. J Med Virol (2005) 1.23
Surgical treatment of atypical aortic coarctation complicating Takayasu's arteritis--experience with 33 cases over 44 years. J Vasc Surg (2005) 1.23
Redirecting differentiation of hematopoietic progenitors by a transcription factor, GATA-2. Blood (2005) 1.23
Bright-field dual-color chromogenic in situ hybridization for diagnosing echinoderm microtubule-associated protein-like 4-anaplastic lymphoma kinase-positive lung adenocarcinomas. J Thorac Oncol (2011) 1.23
Age-associated aortic stenosis in apolipoprotein E-deficient mice. J Am Coll Cardiol (2005) 1.22
Pleiotrophin/heparin-binding growth-associated molecule as a mitogen of rat hepatocytes and its role in regeneration and development of liver. Am J Pathol (2002) 1.22
An ABRE promoter sequence is involved in osmotic stress-responsive expression of the DREB2A gene, which encodes a transcription factor regulating drought-inducible genes in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell Physiol (2011) 1.22
Frequent ALK rearrangement and TTF-1/p63 co-expression in lung adenocarcinoma with signet-ring cell component. Lung Cancer (2010) 1.21
Pulmonary adenocarcinomas with enteric differentiation: histologic and immunohistochemical characteristics compared with metastatic colorectal cancers and usual pulmonary adenocarcinomas. Am J Surg Pathol (2005) 1.20
Frequent co-localization of Cox-2 and laminin-5 gamma2 chain at the invasive front of early-stage lung adenocarcinomas. Am J Pathol (2002) 1.19