Published in Ann Thorac Surg on December 01, 2009
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Hepatocyte growth factor expression in EGFR mutant lung cancer with intrinsic and acquired resistance to tyrosine kinase inhibitors in a Japanese cohort. J Thorac Oncol (2011) 1.71
Retrospective analysis of 45 consecutive patients with advanced gastric cancer treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy using an S-1/CDDP combination. Gastric Cancer (2006) 1.70
Long-term outcomes of peripheral arm ports implanted in patients with colorectal cancer. Int J Clin Oncol (2008) 1.67
Three-dimensional intrafractional movement of prostate measured during real-time tumor-tracking radiotherapy in supine and prone treatment positions. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys (2002) 1.63
Overexpression of T-bet gene regulates murine autoimmune arthritis. Arthritis Rheum (2012) 1.58
Total endoscopic robotic atrial septal defect repair in a patient with dextrocardia and situs inversus totalis. Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg (2011) 1.57
Chest CT and serum vascular endothelial growth factor-C level to diagnose lymph node metastasis in patients with primary non-small cell lung cancer. Chest (2004) 1.57
Efficacy and safety of on-pump beating heart surgery for valvular disease. Ann Thorac Surg (2002) 1.56
Two cases of systemic lupus erythematosus complicated with colonic ulcers. Intern Med (2005) 1.56
Identification and functional analysis of single nucleotide polymorphism in the tandem repeat sequence of thymidylate synthase gene. Cancer Res (2003) 1.53
Subzero 24-hr nonfreezing rat heart preservation: a novel preservation method in a variable magnetic field. Transplantation (2012) 1.52
Murine tumor necrosis factor α-induced adipose-related protein (tumor necrosis factor α-induced protein 9) deficiency leads to arthritis via interleukin-6 overproduction with enhanced NF-κB, STAT-3 signaling, and dysregulated apoptosis of macrophages. Arthritis Rheum (2012) 1.52
A novel technique to prevent intra-operative pneumothorax in awake coronary artery bypass grafting: biomaterial neo-pleura. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg (2008) 1.50
Pain following thoracoscopic surgery: retrospective analysis between single-incision and three-port video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery. J Cardiothorac Surg (2013) 1.49
Prognostic significance of fascin overexpression in human esophageal squamous cell carcinoma. Clin Cancer Res (2005) 1.48
Robot-assisted minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass grafting. ThoraCAB. Circ J (2013) 1.47
Comparative immunohistochemical analysis of IMP3, GLUT1, EMA, CD146, and desmin for distinguishing malignant mesothelioma from reactive mesothelial cells. Am J Clin Pathol (2014) 1.45
Crucial role of the interleukin-6/interleukin-17 cytokine axis in the induction of arthritis by glucose-6-phosphate isomerase. Arthritis Rheum (2008) 1.43
Pathologic and biological assessment of lung tumors showing ground-glass opacity. Ann Thorac Surg (2006) 1.42
Lidocaine-magnesium blood cardioplegia was equivalent to potassium blood cardioplegia in left ventricular function of canine heart. Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg (2006) 1.40
Hybrid surgical angiogenesis: omentopexy can enhance myocardial angiogenesis induced by cell therapy. Ann Thorac Surg (2006) 1.39
Usefulness of fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography in management strategy for thymic epithelial tumors. Ann Thorac Surg (2012) 1.39
Free pericardial fat pads can act as sealant for preventing alveolar air leaks. Ann Thorac Surg (2005) 1.38
Portable coronary active perfusion system for off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting. Ann Thorac Surg (2006) 1.38
Long-term survival cases of lung cancer presented as solitary bone metastasis. Ann Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2005) 1.37
The folate pool in colorectal cancers is associated with DNA hypermethylation and with a polymorphism in methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase. Clin Cancer Res (2003) 1.35
Use of the radial artery graft after transradial catheterization: is it suitable as a bypass conduit? Ann Thorac Surg (2003) 1.31
The clinical significance of Aurora-A/STK15/BTAK expression in human esophageal squamous cell carcinoma. Clin Cancer Res (2005) 1.28
Involvement of TSLC1 in progression of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma. Cancer Res (2003) 1.27
Long interspersed nuclear element 1 hypomethylation is a marker of poor prognosis in stage IA non-small cell lung cancer. Clin Cancer Res (2010) 1.27
Intracorporeal esophagojejunal anastomosis after laparoscopic total gastrectomy for patients with gastric cancer. Surg Endosc (2008) 1.20
Association of TNFAIP3 interacting protein 1, TNIP1 with systemic lupus erythematosus in a Japanese population: a case-control association study. Arthritis Res Ther (2010) 1.17
Role of STAT4 polymorphisms in systemic lupus erythematosus in a Japanese population: a case-control association study of the STAT1-STAT4 region. Arthritis Res Ther (2008) 1.16
Pharmacogenetic profiling and clinical outcome of patients with advanced gastric cancer treated with palliative chemotherapy. J Clin Oncol (2006) 1.14
A biochemically defined system for coding joint formation in V(D)J recombination. Mol Cell (2008) 1.13
Tumor location, cirrhosis, and surgical history contribute to tumor movement in the liver, as measured during stereotactic irradiation using a real-time tumor-tracking radiotherapy system. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys (2003) 1.13
ABCG2 expression is an independent unfavorable prognostic factor in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma. Oncology (2007) 1.12
Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase 677C/T gene polymorphism, gastric cancer susceptibility and genomic DNA hypomethylation in an at-risk Italian population. Int J Cancer (2006) 1.11
Immunohistochemical and mutational analyses of Wnt signaling components and target genes in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinomas. Int J Oncol (2005) 1.11
Clinical significance of osteopontin in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma: comparison with common tumor markers. Oncology (2005) 1.11
Inferior vena cava occluder for remote access perfusion in robotic cardiac surgery. Minim Invasive Ther Allied Technol (2010) 1.10
A multicenter phase I/II trial of rituximab for refractory systemic lupus erythematosus. Mod Rheumatol (2007) 1.09
Immunohistochemical analysis and mutational analyses of beta-catenin, Axin family and APC genes in hepatocellular carcinomas. Int J Oncol (2004) 1.09
Identification of EP4 as a potential target for the treatment of castration-resistant prostate cancer using a novel xenograft model. Cancer Res (2010) 1.08
The association between methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase polymorphism and promoter methylation in proximal colon cancer. Anticancer Res (2004) 1.08
Treatment for gastric carcinoma in the oldest old patients. Gastric Cancer (2011) 1.08
Replication of the association between the C8orf13-BLK region and systemic lupus erythematosus in a Japanese population. Arthritis Rheum (2009) 1.07
Analysis of IgG4 class switch-related molecules in IgG4-related disease. Arthritis Res Ther (2012) 1.06
Cardiac herniation following intrapericardial pneumonectomy with partial pericardiectomy for advanced lung cancer. Ann Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2003) 1.06
Different histological types of non-small cell lung cancer have distinct folate and DNA methylation levels. Cancer Sci (2009) 1.05
Anti-interleukin-6 receptor antibody (tocilizumab) treatment of multicentric Castleman's disease. Intern Med (2007) 1.05
Association of genetic polymorphisms at 8q24 with the risk of prostate cancer in a Japanese population. Prostate (2008) 1.05
Early outcome of a randomized comparison of off-pump and on-pump multiple arterial coronary revascularization. Circulation (2005) 1.03
Total Endoscopic Beating-Heart Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Using A New 3D Imaging System. Innovations (Phila) (2006) 1.03
Intracranial metastasis from an esophageal gastrointestinal stromal tumor. Intern Med (2010) 1.02
TLR7 single-nucleotide polymorphisms in the 3' untranslated region and intron 2 independently contribute to systemic lupus erythematosus in Japanese women: a case-control association study. Arthritis Res Ther (2011) 1.02
Clinicopathological study of surgically treated cases of tracheobronchial adenoid cystic carcinoma. Gen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2010) 1.01
Spontaneous regression of lung metastasis in the absence of tumor necrosis factor receptor p55. Int J Cancer (2004) 1.00
Single incision laparoscopic surgery (SILS) using cross hand technique. Minim Invasive Ther Allied Technol (2009) 0.98
Myasthenia gravis complicated with lung cancer and middle mediastinal thymoma. Asian Cardiovasc Thorac Ann (2012) 0.98
Prediction of survival in patients with esophageal carcinoma using artificial neural networks. Cancer (2005) 0.98
Use of laser microdissection in the analysis of renal-infiltrating T cells in MRL/lpr mice. Mod Rheumatol (2008) 0.97
Requirement of androgen-dependent activation of protein kinase Czeta for androgen-dependent cell proliferation in LNCaP Cells and its roles in transition to androgen-independent cells. Mol Endocrinol (2006) 0.97
Esophagojejunostomy through minilaparotomy after laparoscopic total gastrectomy. Gastric Cancer (2007) 0.97
Activation of Rac1 is closely related to androgen-independent cell proliferation of prostate cancer cells both in vitro and in vivo. Mol Endocrinol (2010) 0.96
Doxycycline treatment in a model of early abdominal aortic aneurysm. Surg Today (2003) 0.96
Arthritogenic T cell epitope in glucose-6-phosphate isomerase-induced arthritis. Arthritis Res Ther (2008) 0.96
Combined choriocarcinoma, neuroendocrine cell carcinoma and tubular adenocarcinoma in the stomach. World J Gastroenterol (2008) 0.95
Differentiation of liver epithelial (stem-like) cells into hepatocytes induced by coculture with hepatic stellate cells. Biochem Biophys Res Commun (2002) 0.95
Interleukin-17 gene expression in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Mod Rheumatol (2007) 0.94
Pathogenic role of immune response to M3 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor in Sjögren's syndrome-like sialoadenitis. J Autoimmun (2010) 0.94
The effects of an additive small amount of a low residual diet against total parenteral nutrition-induced gut mucosal barrier. Am J Surg (2003) 0.93
Association of a functional polymorphism in the 3'-untranslated region of SPI1 with systemic lupus erythematosus. Arthritis Rheum (2011) 0.93
Overexpression of phosphorylated STAT-1alpha in the labial salivary glands of patients with Sjögren's syndrome. Arthritis Rheum (2006) 0.93
LINE-1 methylation shows little intra-patient heterogeneity in primary and synchronous metastatic colorectal cancer. BMC Cancer (2012) 0.93
Primary tracheal lymphoma: case report and literature review. Int J Hematol (2005) 0.93
Regulation of androgen receptor transactivity and mTOR-S6 kinase pathway by Rheb in prostate cancer cell proliferation. Prostate (2010) 0.93