Published in Thorax on June 08, 2013
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The prevalence and evolution of anemia associated with tuberculosis. J Korean Med Sci (2006) 1.44
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The prevalence of pulmonary parenchymal tuberculosis in patients with tuberculous pleuritis. Chest (2006) 1.20
Increased CA 19-9 level in patients without malignant disease. Clin Chem Lab Med (2009) 1.17
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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
Development and application of multiprobe real-time PCR method targeting the hsp65 gene for differentiation of Mycobacterium species from isolates and sputum specimens. J Clin Microbiol (2010) 1.05
Clinical significance of a solitary ground-glass opacity (GGO) lesion of the lung detected by chest CT. Lung Cancer (2006) 1.02
A case of human pulmonary dirofilariasis in a 48-year-old Korean man. Korean J Parasitol (2013) 1.02
Positive tuberculin skin test or interferon-gamma release assay in patients with radiographic lesion suggesting old healed tuberculosis. J Korean Med Sci (2012) 1.02
Endovascular coiling versus neurosurgical clipping in patients with unruptured intracranial aneurysm: a systematic review. BMC Neurol (2012) 1.01
Incidence and risk factors of steroid-induced diabetes in patients with respiratory disease. J Korean Med Sci (2011) 0.97
Cost of treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in South Korea. Respirology (2006) 0.95
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
Inhaled corticosteroid use and risks of lung cancer and laryngeal cancer. Respir Med (2013) 0.95
Antituberculosis drug-induced liver injury in chronic hepatitis and cirrhosis. J Infect (2010) 0.95
Vitamin D deficiency and changes in serum vitamin D levels with treatment among tuberculosis patients in South Korea. Respirology (2012) 0.93
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
Adverse pulmonary reactions associated with the use of monoclonal antibodies in cancer patients. Respir Med (2011) 0.90
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
Factors associated with recurrence in patients with curatively resected stage I-II lung cancer. Lung Cancer (2010) 0.89
Microarray analysis of gene expression associated with extrapulmonary dissemination of tuberculosis. Respirology (2006) 0.89
Retrospective comparison of levofloxacin and moxifloxacin on multidrug-resistant tuberculosis treatment outcomes. Korean J Intern Med (2011) 0.89
Bacterial yield from quantitative cultures of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid in patients with pneumonia on antimicrobial therapy. Korean J Intern Med (2012) 0.89
Clinical implication of protease-activated receptor-2 in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Respir Med (2012) 0.88
Standardization of multilocus sequence typing scheme for Mycobacterium abscessus and Mycobacterium massiliense. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis (2013) 0.88
Multivariate analysis of prognostic factors in patients with pulmonary actinomycosis. BMC Infect Dis (2014) 0.87
Prevalence and its predictors of extrapulmonary involvement in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis. J Korean Med Sci (2009) 0.87
Clinical characteristics of tuberculosis in patients with liver cirrhosis. Respirology (2007) 0.87
Detection of primary sites in unknown primary tumors using FDG-PET or FDG-PET/CT. BMC Res Notes (2011) 0.87
Impact of visceral adiposity measured by abdominal computed tomography on pulmonary function. J Korean Med Sci (2011) 0.86
Alpha-antitrypsin genotypes in Korean patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Respirology (2005) 0.86
Phenotypic, immunologic, and clinical characteristics of patients with nontuberculous mycobacterial lung disease in Korea. BMC Infect Dis (2013) 0.86
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Validation of the GAP score in Korean patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Chest (2015) 0.85
Spontaneous regression of squamous cell lung cancer. Am J Respir Crit Care Med (2013) 0.85
Poor correlation between tuberculin skin tests and interferon-γ assays in close contacts of patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. Respirology (2012) 0.85
Outcome of patients with connective tissue disease requiring intensive care for respiratory failure. Rheumatol Int (2011) 0.85
Response to empirical anti-tuberculosis treatment in patients with sputum smear-negative presumptive pulmonary tuberculosis. Respiration (2005) 0.85
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Clinical features of patients on home oxygen therapy due to chronic respiratory failure at one university hospital. Korean J Intern Med (2012) 0.84
Aetiologies and outcomes of diffuse alveolar haemorrhage presenting as acute respiratory failure of uncertain cause. Respirology (2008) 0.84
Contamination rates between smart cell phones and non-smart cell phones of healthcare workers. J Hosp Med (2013) 0.83
Patterns and determinants of COPD-related healthcare utilization by severity of airway obstruction in Korea. BMC Pulm Med (2014) 0.83
Risk factors of postoperative pneumonia after lung cancer surgery. J Korean Med Sci (2011) 0.83
Differentiation of mycobacteria in sputa by duplex polymerase chain reaction for mycobacterial hsp65 gene. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis (2008) 0.83
Interferon-gamma receptor 1 promoter polymorphisms: population distribution and functional implications. Clin Immunol (2004) 0.83
Association between the -159C/T CD14 gene polymorphism and tuberculosis in a Korean population. FEMS Immunol Med Microbiol (2009) 0.82
Efficacy of levofloxacin versus cefuroxime in treating acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Int J Chron Obstruct Pulmon Dis (2013) 0.81
Trends in the incidence of subarachnoid hemorrhage in South Korea from 2006-2009: an ecological study. World Neurosurg (2012) 0.81
Active pulmonary tuberculosis and latent tuberculosis infection among homeless people in Seoul, South Korea: a cross-sectional study. BMC Public Health (2013) 0.81
Leukopenia during treatment with first-line anti-tuberculosis medication. Respiration (2004) 0.81
Impact of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on the mortality of patients with non-small-cell lung cancer. J Thorac Oncol (2014) 0.80
Postoperative pulmonary complications after surgery in patients with interstitial lung disease. Respiration (2014) 0.80
Clinical significance of mTOR, ZEB1, ROCK1 expression in lung tissues of pulmonary fibrosis patients. BMC Pulm Med (2014) 0.80
Latent tuberculosis infection in a military setting diagnosed by whole-blood interferon-gamma assay. Respirology (2007) 0.79
Costs for 5-year lung cancer survivors in a tertiary care hospital in South Korea. Lung Cancer (2009) 0.79
Radiological and clinical characteristics of a military outbreak of pandemic H1N1 2009 influenza virus infection. Korean J Radiol (2010) 0.79
17β-Estradiol induces vasorelaxation in a G-protein-coupled receptor 30-independent manner. Naunyn Schmiedebergs Arch Pharmacol (2012) 0.79
Sequential bilateral lung resection in a patient with Mycobacterium abscessus lung disease refractory to medical treatment. Yonsei Med J (2009) 0.79
Computed tomography features of extensively drug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis in non-HIV-infected patients. J Comput Assist Tomogr (2010) 0.79
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
Clinical effects of gemifloxacin on the delay of tuberculosis treatment. J Korean Med Sci (2013) 0.79
The clinical implications of bronchoscopy in hemoptysis patients with no explainable lesions in computed tomography. Respir Med (2011) 0.79
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
C-reactive protein as a prognostic factor for mortality in pneumonia patients with liver cirrhosis. Hepatogastroenterology (2014) 0.78
Risk of hospital admission or emergency room visit for pneumonia in patients using respiratory inhalers: a case-crossover study. Respirology (2013) 0.78
Isolation of multiple nontuberculous mycobacteria species in the same patients. Int J Infect Dis (2011) 0.78
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
Use of drug-eluting stents versus bare-metal stents in Korea: a cost-minimization analysis using population data. J Prev Med Public Health (2013) 0.77
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