Sung Koo Han

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1 Discrepancy between the tuberculin skin test and the whole-blood interferon gamma assay for the diagnosis of latent tuberculosis infection in an intermediate tuberculosis-burden country. JAMA 2005 4.02
2 Impact of extensive drug resistance on treatment outcomes in non-HIV-infected patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. Clin Infect Dis 2007 3.26
3 Monthly follow-ups of interferon-γ release assays among health-care workers in contact with patients with TB. Chest 2012 2.60
4 Usefulness of whole-blood interferon-gamma assay and interferon-gamma enzyme-linked immunospot assay in the diagnosis of active pulmonary tuberculosis. Chest 2007 1.75
5 Incidence and risk factors of delayed pneumothorax after transthoracic needle biopsy of the lung. Chest 2004 1.65
6 Lack of an association between interleukin-12 receptor beta1 polymorphisms and tuberculosis in Koreans. Respiration 2005 1.54
7 Prospective analysis of clinical characteristics and risk factors of postbronchoscopy fever. Chest 2004 1.48
8 Radiographic improvement and its predictors in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis. Int J Infect Dis 2009 1.47
9 The prevalence and evolution of anemia associated with tuberculosis. J Korean Med Sci 2006 1.44
10 A case of acute pneumonitis induced by injection of silicone for colpoplasty. Respiration 2003 1.43
11 Mycobacterium kansasii pulmonary diseases in Korea. J Korean Med Sci 2005 1.34
12 Clinical characteristics and treatment responses of tuberculosis in patients with malignancy receiving anticancer chemotherapy. Chest 2005 1.28
13 Solid-organ malignancy as a risk factor for tuberculosis. Respirology 2008 1.25
14 Diagnostic accuracy and turnaround time of the Xpert MTB/RIF assay in routine clinical practice. PLoS One 2013 1.22
15 The prevalence of pulmonary parenchymal tuberculosis in patients with tuberculous pleuritis. Chest 2006 1.20
16 Recombinant adenoviruses expressing dominant negative insulin-like growth factor-I receptor demonstrate antitumor effects on lung cancer. Cancer Gene Ther 2003 1.20
17 Increased CA 19-9 level in patients without malignant disease. Clin Chem Lab Med 2009 1.17
18 Hypoxia confers protection against apoptosis via PI3K/Akt and ERK pathways in lung cancer cells. Cancer Lett 2006 1.15
19 The interval between initiation of anti-tuberculosis treatment in patients with culture-positive pulmonary tuberculosis and receipt of drug-susceptibility test results. J Korean Med Sci 2007 1.11
20 Impact of whole-body ¹⁸F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography on therapeutic management of non-small cell lung cancer. Respirology 2010 1.10
21 Preheating accelerates mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase inactivation post-heat shock via a heat shock protein 70-mediated increase in phosphorylated MAP kinase phosphatase-1. J Biol Chem 2005 1.05
22 Association of HLA-DR and HLA-DQ genes with susceptibility to pulmonary tuberculosis in Koreans: preliminary evidence of associations with drug resistance, disease severity, and disease recurrence. Hum Immunol 2005 1.03
23 The prevalence and impact of depression among medical students: a nationwide cross-sectional study in South Korea. Acad Med 2010 1.03
24 Clinical significance of a solitary ground-glass opacity (GGO) lesion of the lung detected by chest CT. Lung Cancer 2006 1.02
25 A case of human pulmonary dirofilariasis in a 48-year-old Korean man. Korean J Parasitol 2013 1.02
26 The role of whole-body FDG PET/CT, Tc 99m MDP bone scintigraphy, and serum alkaline phosphatase in detecting bone metastasis in patients with newly diagnosed lung cancer. J Korean Med Sci 2009 1.01
27 Adenovirus-TRAIL can overcome TRAIL resistance and induce a bystander effect. Cancer Gene Ther 2003 0.98
28 Incidence and risk factors of steroid-induced diabetes in patients with respiratory disease. J Korean Med Sci 2011 0.97
29 A case of melioidosis presenting as migrating pulmonary infiltration: the first case in Korea. J Korean Med Sci 2005 0.97
30 Lung matrix metalloproteinase-9 correlates with cigarette smoking and obstruction of airflow. J Korean Med Sci 2003 0.97
31 The incidence and clinical implication of sputum with positive acid-fast bacilli smear but negative in mycobacterial culture in a tertiary referral hospital in South Korea. J Korean Med Sci 2008 0.95
32 Cost of treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in South Korea. Respirology 2006 0.95
33 Translation and validation of the Korean Confusion Assessment Method for the Intensive Care Unit. BMC Psychiatry 2011 0.94
34 Prognostic value of central venous oxygen saturation and blood lactate levels measured simultaneously in the same patients with severe systemic inflammatory response syndrome and severe sepsis. Lung 2014 0.91
35 Application of p27 gene therapy for human malignant glioma potentiated by using mutant p27. J Neurosurg 2004 0.90
36 Clinical characteristics and treatment responses of patients who developed tuberculosis following use of a tumor necrosis factor-α inhibitor. Korean J Intern Med 2013 0.90
37 A promoter SNP rs4073T>A in the common allele of the interleukin 8 gene is associated with the development of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis via the IL-8 protein enhancing mode. Respir Res 2011 0.90
38 Adverse pulmonary reactions associated with the use of monoclonal antibodies in cancer patients. Respir Med 2011 0.90
39 Clinical characteristics and risk factors for nosocomial candidemia in medical intensive care units: experience in a single hospital in Korea for 6.6 years. J Korean Med Sci 2010 0.89
40 Factors associated with recurrence in patients with curatively resected stage I-II lung cancer. Lung Cancer 2010 0.89
41 Retrospective comparison of levofloxacin and moxifloxacin on multidrug-resistant tuberculosis treatment outcomes. Korean J Intern Med 2011 0.89
42 Microarray analysis of gene expression associated with extrapulmonary dissemination of tuberculosis. Respirology 2006 0.89
43 Bacterial yield from quantitative cultures of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid in patients with pneumonia on antimicrobial therapy. Korean J Intern Med 2012 0.89
44 Clinical implication of protease-activated receptor-2 in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Respir Med 2012 0.88
45 Multivariate analysis of prognostic factors in patients with pulmonary actinomycosis. BMC Infect Dis 2014 0.87
46 Detection of primary sites in unknown primary tumors using FDG-PET or FDG-PET/CT. BMC Res Notes 2011 0.87
47 Prevalence and its predictors of extrapulmonary involvement in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis. J Korean Med Sci 2009 0.87
48 Clinical characteristics of tuberculosis in patients with liver cirrhosis. Respirology 2007 0.87
49 Aggregation of beta2 integrins activates human neutrophils through the IkappaB/NF-kappaB pathway. J Leukoc Biol 2003 0.86
50 Alpha-antitrypsin genotypes in Korean patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Respirology 2005 0.86
51 Impact of parenchymal tuberculosis sequelae on mediastinal lymph node staging in patients with lung cancer. J Korean Med Sci 2010 0.85
52 Validation of the GAP score in Korean patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Chest 2015 0.85
53 Response to empirical anti-tuberculosis treatment in patients with sputum smear-negative presumptive pulmonary tuberculosis. Respiration 2005 0.85
54 FHIT protein enhances paclitaxel-induced apoptosis in lung cancer cells. Int J Cancer 2006 0.85
55 The effect of adenovirus-IkappaBalpha transduction on the chemosensitivity of lung cancer cell line with resistance to cis-diamminedichloroplatinum(II)(cisplatin) and doxorubicin(adriamycin). Lung Cancer 2003 0.85
56 Outcome of patients with connective tissue disease requiring intensive care for respiratory failure. Rheumatol Int 2011 0.85
57 Heat shock protein 70 negatively regulates the heat-shock-induced suppression of the IkappaB/NF-kappaB cascade by facilitating IkappaB kinase renaturation and blocking its further denaturation. Exp Cell Res 2005 0.85
58 Bronchial washing yield before and after forceps biopsy in patients with endoscopically visible lung cancers. Respirology 2007 0.84
59 Clinical features of patients on home oxygen therapy due to chronic respiratory failure at one university hospital. Korean J Intern Med 2012 0.84
60 The heat-shock-induced suppression of the IkappaB/NF-kappaB cascade is due to inactivation of upstream regulators of IkappaBalpha through insolubilization. Exp Cell Res 2004 0.84
61 Contamination rates between smart cell phones and non-smart cell phones of healthcare workers. J Hosp Med 2013 0.83
62 Risk factors of postoperative pneumonia after lung cancer surgery. J Korean Med Sci 2011 0.83
63 In vivo imaging of adenovirus transduction and enhanced therapeutic efficacy of combination therapy with conditionally replicating adenovirus and adenovirus-p27. Cancer Res 2006 0.83
64 Factors influencing treatment for depression among medical students: a nationwide sample in South Korea. Med Educ 2009 0.83
65 Adenovirus expressing shRNA to IGF-1R enhances the chemosensitivity of lung cancer cell lines by blocking IGF-1 pathway. Lung Cancer 2006 0.82
66 Association between the -159C/T CD14 gene polymorphism and tuberculosis in a Korean population. FEMS Immunol Med Microbiol 2009 0.82
67 Efficacy of levofloxacin versus cefuroxime in treating acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Int J Chron Obstruct Pulmon Dis 2013 0.81
68 Leukopenia during treatment with first-line anti-tuberculosis medication. Respiration 2004 0.81
69 A case of granulomatous lung disease in a patient with Good's syndrome. Korean J Intern Med 2008 0.80
70 Clinical significance of mTOR, ZEB1, ROCK1 expression in lung tissues of pulmonary fibrosis patients. BMC Pulm Med 2014 0.80
71 Impact of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on the mortality of patients with non-small-cell lung cancer. J Thorac Oncol 2014 0.80
72 Costs for 5-year lung cancer survivors in a tertiary care hospital in South Korea. Lung Cancer 2009 0.79
73 The clinical implications of bronchoscopy in hemoptysis patients with no explainable lesions in computed tomography. Respir Med 2011 0.79
74 Sequential bilateral lung resection in a patient with Mycobacterium abscessus lung disease refractory to medical treatment. Yonsei Med J 2009 0.79
75 The combination of tiotropium and budesonide in the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. J Korean Med Sci 2007 0.79
76 Latent tuberculosis infection in a military setting diagnosed by whole-blood interferon-gamma assay. Respirology 2007 0.79
77 Lack of association between the microsatellite polymorphism in intron 2 of human Toll-like receptor 2 gene and bronchiectasis among Koreans. Respirology 2007 0.79
78 The immune modulation of Clara cell-10 in human peripheral monocytes and dendritic cells. Int J Mol Med 2010 0.79
79 Lack of association between matrix metalloproteinase 8 promoter polymorphism and bronchiectasis in Koreans. J Korean Med Sci 2007 0.78
80 C-reactive protein as a prognostic factor for mortality in pneumonia patients with liver cirrhosis. Hepatogastroenterology 2014 0.78
81 Isolation of multiple nontuberculous mycobacteria species in the same patients. Int J Infect Dis 2011 0.78
82 Frequency and predictors of miliary tuberculosis in patients with miliary pulmonary nodules in South Korea: a retrospective cohort study. BMC Infect Dis 2008 0.78
83 Blockade of NF-κB activation by IκBα gene therapy enhances radiation sensitivity and abolishes acquired resistance to radiation. Mol Med Rep 2011 0.78
84 Clinical significance of non-diagnostic pathology results from percutaneous transthoracic needle lung biopsy: experience of a tertiary hospital without an on-site cytopathologist. Respirology 2009 0.77
85 Clinical implication of microscopic anthracotic pigment in mediastinal staging of non-small cell lung cancer by endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration. J Korean Med Sci 2013 0.77
86 Sound analysis in an in vitro endotracheal tube model. Korean J Intern Med 2011 0.77
87 Inhibitory effect of adenovirus-uteroglobin transduction on the growth of lung cancer cell lines. Cancer Gene Ther 2003 0.76
88 Additive effect of TRAIL and p53 gene transfer on apoptosis of human lung cancer cell lines. Int J Mol Med 2004 0.76
89 Effect of matrix metalloproteinase-9 -1562C/T gene polymorphism on manifestations of pulmonary tuberculosis. Tuberculosis (Edinb) 2008 0.76
90 Clinical characteristics of pulmonary embolism with underlying malignancy. Korean J Intern Med 2010 0.76
91 Adenovirus-uteroglobin suppresses COX-2 expression via inhibition of NF-kappaB activity in lung cancer cells. Lung Cancer 2005 0.76
92 Treatment response and long term follow-up results of nonspecific interstitial pneumonia. J Korean Med Sci 2012 0.76
93 Prognosis in patients having chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with significant coronary artery lesion angina. Korean J Intern Med 2012 0.75
94 Predictors of cardiogenic and non-cardiogenic causes in cases with bilateral chest infiltrates. Tuberc Respir Dis (Seoul) 2013 0.75
95 Effect of prolonged incubation time on results of the QuantiFERON TB gold in-tube assay for diagnosis of latent tuberculosis infection. Clin Vaccine Immunol 2013 0.75
96 Factors determining the timing of tracheostomy in medical ICU of a tertiary referral hospital. Tuberc Respir Dis (Seoul) 2012 0.75
97 Treatment response and adverse reactions in older tuberculosis patients with immunocompromising comorbidities. Yonsei Med J 2013 0.75
98 A case of acute pulmonary thromboembolism after taking tadalafil. Tuberc Respir Dis (Seoul) 2012 0.75
99 Influence of additional post-bronchoscopy visit on patient satisfaction after flexible bronchoscopy. Korean J Intern Med 2010 0.75
100 Clinical implication of atypical cells from sputum in patients without lung cancer. Respirology 2006 0.75
101 Gene therapy with GM-CSF, interleukin-4 and herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase shows strong antitumor effect on lung cancer. Anticancer Res 2003 0.75
102 Clinical characteristics of a second small nodule(s) associated with cT1-2N0M0 non-small-cell lung cancer. Lung 2007 0.75
103 C-reactive protein as a prognostic factor for mortality in pneumonia patients with liver cirrhosis. Hepatogastroenterology 2014 0.75