Published in Surgery on March 23, 2007
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Perioperative blood transfusion as a poor prognostic factor after aggressive surgical resection for hilar cholangiocarcinoma. J Gastrointest Surg (2015) 2.03
Guidelines for the management of biliary tract and ampullary carcinomas: surgical treatment. J Hepatobiliary Pancreat Surg (2008) 1.60
Hilar cholangiocarcinoma: diagnosis, treatment options, and management. Hepatobiliary Surg Nutr (2014) 1.18
Surgical treatment of 144 cases of hilar cholangiocarcinoma without liver-related mortality. World J Surg (2014) 0.98
Curative-intent surgery for hilar cholangiocarcinoma: prognostic factors for clinical decision making. Langenbecks Arch Surg (2014) 0.97
Staging laparoscopy for hilar cholangiocarcinoma in 100 patients. Langenbecks Arch Surg (2013) 0.94
Surgical strategy for bile duct cancer: Advances and current limitations. World J Clin Oncol (2011) 0.92
Perihilar cholangiocarcinoma: a surgeon's viewpoint on current topics. J Gastroenterol (2012) 0.92
Perihilar cholangiocarcinoma: Current therapy. World J Gastrointest Pathophysiol (2014) 0.90
Principles of surgical resection in hilar cholangiocarcinoma. World J Gastrointest Oncol (2013) 0.90
Systematic review and meta-analysis of the role of vascular resection in the treatment of hilar cholangiocarcinoma. HPB (Oxford) (2013) 0.89
Surgical resection for hilar cholangiocarcinoma: experience improves resectability. HPB (Oxford) (2011) 0.89
Staging of peripheral-type intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma: appraisal of the new TNM classification and its modifications. World J Surg (2011) 0.88
Hilar cholangiocarcinoma: controversies on the extent of surgical resection aiming at cure. Int J Colorectal Dis (2014) 0.88
Outcome of surgical resection in Klatskin tumors. World J Gastrointest Oncol (2013) 0.88
Expanding the applications of microvascular surgical techniques to digestive surgeries: a technical review. Surg Today (2011) 0.86
Evolution of the surgical management of perihilar cholangiocarcinoma in a Western centre demonstrates improved survival with endoscopic biliary drainage and reduced use of blood transfusion. HPB (Oxford) (2011) 0.86
Is para-aortic lymph node metastasis a contraindication for radical resection in biliary carcinoma? World J Surg (2011) 0.85
Survival benefit of hepatopancreatoduodenectomy for cholangiocarcinoma in comparison to hepatectomy or pancreatoduodenectomy. World J Surg (2010) 0.84
Portal vein resection using the no-touch technique with a hepatectomy for hilar cholangiocarcinoma. HPB (Oxford) (2013) 0.82
Accomplishments in 2007 in the management of hepatobiliary cancers. Gastrointest Cancer Res (2008) 0.81
Preoperative biliary drainage in patients with hilar cholangiocarcinoma undergoing major hepatectomy. World J Gastroenterol (2013) 0.80
When hepatic-side ductal margin is positive in N+ cases, additional resection of the bile duct is not necessary to render the negative hepatic-side ductal margin during surgery for extrahepatic distal bile duct carcinoma. Med Sci Monit (2014) 0.80
Surgical resection techniques for locally advanced hilar cholangiocarcinoma. Langenbecks Arch Surg (2014) 0.79
Flowcharts for the management of biliary tract and ampullary carcinomas. J Hepatobiliary Pancreat Surg (2008) 0.79
Hepatic artery reconstruction first for the treatment of hilar cholangiocarcinoma bismuth type IIIB with contralateral arterial invasion: a novel technical strategy. HPB (Oxford) (2011) 0.78
Criteria of unresectability and the decision-making process. HPB (Oxford) (2008) 0.78
The Surgical Management of Klatskin Tumours: Has Anything Changed in the Last Decade? World J Surg (2015) 0.78
Hepatic Artery Reconstruction with a Continuous Suture Method for Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery. World J Surg (2016) 0.78
Perioperative Management of Hilar Cholangiocarcinoma. J Gastrointest Surg (2015) 0.77
Actual Long-Term Survival Outcome of 403 Consecutive Patients with Hilar Cholangiocarcinoma. World J Surg (2016) 0.77
Issues in surgery for hilar cholangiocarcinoma. Indian J Surg (2011) 0.77
Multimodal treatment strategies for advanced hilar cholangiocarcinoma. Langenbecks Arch Surg (2014) 0.76
Risk factors, management, and prognosis for liver abscess after radical resection of hilar cholangiocarcinoma. Int J Clin Exp Med (2015) 0.75
Transhepatic Hilar Approach for Perihilar Cholangiocarcinoma: Significance of Early Judgment of Resectability and Safe Vascular Reconstruction. J Gastrointest Surg (2016) 0.75
Individualized preoperative planning using three-dimensional modeling for Bismuth and Corlette type III hilar cholangiocarcinoma. World J Surg Oncol (2016) 0.75
Bile duct surgery in the treatment of hepatobiliary and gallbladder malignancies: effects of hepatic and vascular resection on outcomes. HPB (Oxford) (2015) 0.75
Combined portal vein resection for hilar cholangiocarcinoma. Int J Clin Exp Med (2015) 0.75
Right hepatectomy for a detoured left hepatic artery in hilar cholangiocarcinoma-report of a rare but rational resection. World J Surg Oncol (2016) 0.75
Radical surgery: vascular and pancreatic resection for cholangiocarcinoma. HPB (Oxford) (2008) 0.75
Left hepatectomy with simultaneous hepatic artery and portal vein reconstructions in the operation for cholangiocarcinoma: the surgical techniques comprised of step-by-step established procedures. Transl Gastroenterol Hepatol (2017) 0.75
Adjuvant gemcitabine monotherapy for resectable perihilar cholangiocarcinoma with lymph node involvement: a propensity score matching analysis. Surg Today (2016) 0.75
Clinical significance of anatomical variant of the left hepatic artery for perihilar cholangiocarcinoma applied to right-sided hepatectomy. World J Surg (2014) 0.75
Major hepatopancreatoduodenectomy with simultaneous resection of the hepatic artery for advanced biliary cancer. Langenbecks Arch Surg (2016) 0.75
Consensus nomenclature for in vivo imaging of reversibly binding radioligands. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab (2007) 11.79
Shared and unique functions of the DExD/H-box helicases RIG-I, MDA5, and LGP2 in antiviral innate immunity. J Immunol (2005) 9.17
Reconstitution of circadian oscillation of cyanobacterial KaiC phosphorylation in vitro. Science (2005) 7.28
PB2 amino acid at position 627 affects replicative efficiency, but not cell tropism, of Hong Kong H5N1 influenza A viruses in mice. Virology (2004) 5.96
Imaging of tau pathology in a tauopathy mouse model and in Alzheimer patients compared to normal controls. Neuron (2013) 3.27
Multiplex-PCR method for species identification of coagulase-positive staphylococci. J Clin Microbiol (2010) 2.21
Upregulation of TRPC1 in the development of cardiac hypertrophy. J Mol Cell Cardiol (2006) 2.17
A single polymorphic amino acid on Toxoplasma gondii kinase ROP16 determines the direct and strain-specific activation of Stat3. J Exp Med (2009) 2.11
Increased binding of peripheral benzodiazepine receptor in Alzheimer's disease measured by positron emission tomography with [11C]DAA1106. Biol Psychiatry (2008) 2.06
Biosynthesis of Dictyostelium discoideum differentiation-inducing factor by a hybrid type I fatty acid-type III polyketide synthase. Nat Chem Biol (2006) 2.02
Cytokines produced by bone marrow cells can contribute to functional improvement of the infarcted heart by protecting cardiomyocytes from ischemic injury. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol (2006) 2.01
The systemic inflammation-based Glasgow Prognostic Score as a prognostic factor in patients with acute heart failure. J Cardiovasc Med (Hagerstown) (2015) 1.97
Association between hyperglycemia and the no-reflow phenomenon in patients with acute myocardial infarction. J Am Coll Cardiol (2003) 1.95
Epithelium: at the interface of innate and adaptive immune responses. J Allergy Clin Immunol (2007) 1.88
Influence of serotonin transporter gene polymorphism on depressive symptoms and new cardiac events after acute myocardial infarction. Am Heart J (2005) 1.86
A microRNA regulatory mechanism of osteoblast differentiation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2009) 1.80
Two cases of calcified amorphous tumor mimicking mitral valve vegetation. Circulation (2012) 1.79
Identification of protective epitopes on ebola virus glycoprotein at the single amino acid level by using recombinant vesicular stomatitis viruses. J Virol (2003) 1.78
Molecular loops in the galactic center: evidence for magnetic flotation. Science (2006) 1.76
Critical role of cyclin D1 nuclear import in cardiomyocyte proliferation. Circ Res (2003) 1.70
Perspectives on the etiology of chronic rhinosinusitis: an immune barrier hypothesis. Am J Rhinol (2008) 1.70
Regeneration of infarcted myocardium by intramyocardial implantation of ex vivo transforming growth factor-beta-preprogrammed bone marrow stem cells. Circulation (2005) 1.70
Refined balloon pulmonary angioplasty for inoperable patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. Circ Cardiovasc Interv (2012) 1.65
Long term effects of phlebotomy on biochemical and histological parameters of chronic hepatitis C. Am J Gastroenterol (2002) 1.63
Two different coronary blood flow velocity patterns in thrombolysis in myocardial infarction flow grade 2 in acute myocardial infarction: insight into mechanisms of microvascular dysfunction. J Am Coll Cardiol (2002) 1.63
Clinical implications of distal embolization during coronary interventional procedures in patients with acute myocardial infarction: quantitative study with Doppler guidewire. JACC Cardiovasc Interv (2008) 1.62
Assessing myocardial perfusion with the transthoracic Doppler technique in patients with reperfused anterior myocardial infarction: comparison with angiographic, enzymatic and electrocardiographic indices. Eur Heart J (2004) 1.62
Marked hemodynamic improvements by high-dose epoprostenol therapy in patients with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension. Circ J (2010) 1.62
Guidelines for the management of biliary tract and ampullary carcinomas: surgical treatment. J Hepatobiliary Pancreat Surg (2008) 1.60
Beneficial effects of adaptive servo ventilation in patients with chronic heart failure. Circ J (2010) 1.60
Nitric oxide inhibits ischemia/reperfusion-induced myocardial apoptosis by modulating cyclin A-associated kinase activity. Cardiovasc Res (2003) 1.60
Remote ischemic pre-conditioning alleviates contrast-induced acute kidney injury in patients with moderate chronic kidney disease. Circ J (2013) 1.57
A proposed parent vessel geometry-based categorization of saccular intracranial aneurysms: computational flow dynamics analysis of the risk factors for lesion rupture. J Neurosurg (2005) 1.54
Regional dopamine synthesis in patients with schizophrenia using L-[beta-11C]DOPA PET. Schizophr Res (2008) 1.53
Fragmented QRS is associated with torsades de pointes in patients with acquired long QT syndrome. Heart Rhythm (2010) 1.52
Cellular expression of integrin-beta 1 is of critical importance for inducing therapeutic angiogenesis by cell implantation. Cardiovasc Res (2005) 1.52
Spontaneous electrocardiogram alterations predict ventricular fibrillation in Brugada syndrome. Heart Rhythm (2011) 1.51
Iminosugars as therapeutic agents: recent advances and promising trends. Future Med Chem (2011) 1.51
Identification and physiological activity of survival factor released from cardiomyocytes during ischaemia and reperfusion. Cardiovasc Res (2008) 1.49
The role of echocardiography in predicting responders to cardiac resynchronization therapy. Circ J (2011) 1.49
Pravastatin improves remodeling and cardiac function after myocardial infarction by an antiinflammatory mechanism rather than by the induction of angiogenesis. Ann Thorac Surg (2006) 1.49
Hemodynamic analysis of growing intracranial aneurysms arising from a posterior inferior cerebellar artery. World Neurosurg (2011) 1.48
Evidence for diminished levels of epithelial psoriasin and calprotectin in chronic rhinosinusitis. J Allergy Clin Immunol (2010) 1.48
Multicentric evaluation of a clinical and prognostic scoring system predictive of survival after resection of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinomas. Liver Int (2010) 1.46
The reduction of hemodynamic loading assists self-regeneration of the injured heart by increasing cell proliferation, inhibiting cell apoptosis, and inducing stem-cell recruitment. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2007) 1.46
AIP1/Alix is a binding partner of Sendai virus C protein and facilitates virus budding. J Virol (2005) 1.44
Hepatocyte nuclear factor-kappa beta (NF-kappaB) activation is protective but is decreased in the cholestatic liver with endotoxemia. Surgery (2010) 1.44
Virus infection triggers SUMOylation of IRF3 and IRF7, leading to the negative regulation of type I interferon gene expression. J Biol Chem (2008) 1.44
Evidence for altered activity of the IL-6 pathway in chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps. J Allergy Clin Immunol (2010) 1.42
Three-dimensional echocardiography guided closure of complex multiple atrial septal defects. Echocardiography (2014) 1.42
TRP channel and cardiovascular disease. Pharmacol Ther (2008) 1.42
Multicenter investigations of the prevalence of abdominal aortic aneurysm in elderly Japanese patients with hypertension. Circ J (2015) 1.41
Preoperative assessment of longitudinal extension of cholangiocarcinoma with peroral video-cholangioscopy: a prospective study. Dig Endosc (2013) 1.41
Thymic stromal lymphopoietin activity is increased in nasal polyps of patients with chronic rhinosinusitis. J Allergy Clin Immunol (2013) 1.40
Synergistic effect of combined HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor and angiotensin-II receptor blocker therapy in patients with chronic heart failure: the HF-COSTAR trial. Circ J (2011) 1.40
Treat and Repair Strategy in Patients With Atrial Septal Defect and Significant Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. Circ J (2015) 1.40
Heart Rate Control With If Inhibitor, Ivabradine, in Japanese Patients With Chronic Heart Failure - A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Phase II Study. Circ J (2016) 1.40
Reduced diurnal variation of heart rate is associated with increased plasma B-type natriuretic peptide level in patients with atrial fibrillation. Clin Cardiol (2013) 1.40
Essential role of the N-terminus of murine Orai1 in store-operated Ca2+ entry. Biochem Biophys Res Commun (2007) 1.40
Normal values of echocardiographic parameters in relation to age in a healthy Japanese population: the JAMP study. Circ J (2008) 1.39
An endothelial-mesenchymal relay pathway regulates early phases of pancreas development. Dev Biol (2006) 1.39
Should the extrahepatic bile duct be resected for locally advanced gallbladder cancer? Surgery (2004) 1.39
A free-floating left atrial thrombus develops intermittent entrapment in the mid-ventricle during diastole. Heart Vessels (2011) 1.38
Corticosteroid and cytokines synergistically enhance toll-like receptor 2 expression in respiratory epithelial cells. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol (2004) 1.38
Age-related degeneration of corpus callosum measured with diffusion tensor imaging. Neuroimage (2006) 1.38
Generation of velogenic Newcastle disease viruses from a nonpathogenic waterfowl isolate by passaging in chickens. Virology (2002) 1.37
Myocardial contrast echocardiography with a new calibration method can estimate myocardial viability in patients with myocardial infarction. J Am Coll Cardiol (2004) 1.37
DIF-1 induces the basal disc of the Dictyostelium fruiting body. Dev Biol (2008) 1.36
Quantitative analyses of 18F-FEDAA1106 binding to peripheral benzodiazepine receptors in living human brain. J Nucl Med (2006) 1.36
Immunosuppression following surgical and traumatic injury. Surg Today (2010) 1.36
Characterization of a neuraminidase-deficient influenza a virus as a potential gene delivery vector and a live vaccine. J Virol (2004) 1.33
4-C-Me-DAB and 4-C-Me-LAB - enantiomeric alkyl-branched pyrrolidine iminosugars - are specific and potent α-glucosidase inhibitors; acetone as the sole protecting group. Tetrahedron Lett (2011) 1.33
The long noncoding region of the human parainfluenza virus type 1 f gene contributes to the read-through transcription at the m-f gene junction. J Virol (2002) 1.31
Differential type I IFN-inducing abilities of wild-type versus vaccine strains of measles virus. J Immunol (2007) 1.29
Cerebral vascular mean transit time in healthy humans: a comparative study with PET and dynamic susceptibility contrast-enhanced MRI. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab (2006) 1.25
Incidence and associated premorbid diagnoses of patients with chronic rhinosinusitis. J Allergy Clin Immunol (2013) 1.24
ATF3 inhibits doxorubicin-induced apoptosis in cardiac myocytes: a novel cardioprotective role of ATF3. J Mol Cell Cardiol (2002) 1.24
Chromospheric anemone jets as evidence of ubiquitous reconnection. Science (2007) 1.24
Steroid treatment for severe childhood IgA nephropathy: a randomized, controlled trial. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol (2006) 1.24
Epithelium, inflammation, and immunity in the upper airways of humans: studies in chronic rhinosinusitis. Proc Am Thorac Soc (2009) 1.22
Involvement of increased expression of transient receptor potential melastatin 8 in oxaliplatin-induced cold allodynia in mice. Neurosci Lett (2009) 1.21
Angiopoietins and Tie-2 expression in angiogenesis and proliferation of human hepatocellular carcinoma. Hepatology (2003) 1.21