Hiromitsu Saisho

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Best Publications

• Side population purified from hepatocellular carcinoma cells harbors cancer stem cell-like properties.

  Tetsuhiro Chiba;Kaoru Kita;Yun-Wen Zheng;Osamu Yokosuka

  902
  Citations

• Influence of hepatitis B virus genotypes on the progression of chronic type B liver disease

  Hajime Sumi;Osamu Yokosuka;Naohiko Seki;Makoto Arai

  622
  Citations

• Detection of ras Gene Mutations in Pancreatic Juice and Peripheral Blood of Patients with Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma

  Minoru Tada;Masao Omata;Shigenobu Kawai;Hiromitsu Saisho

  574
  Citations

• Natural history of minute hepatocellular carcinoma smaller than three centimeters complicating cirrhosis. A study in 22 patients.

  Masaaki Ebara;Masao Ohto;Takashi Shinagawa;Nobuyuki Sugiura

  568
  Citations

• Abdominal wall fat index, estimated by ultrasonography, for assessment of the ratio of visceral fat to subcutaneous fat in the abdomen

  Ryouichi Suzuki;Satoe Watanabe;Yasuo Hirai;Kazuhide Akiyama

  432
  Citations

• Association of gallbladder carcinoma and anomalous pancreaticobiliary ductal union

  Kunio Kimura;Masao Ohto;Hiromitsu Saisho;Takao Unozawa

  406
  Citations

• Diagnosis and Clinical Features of Small Hepatocellular Carcinoma With Emphasis on the Utility of Real-Time Ultrasonography: A Study in 51 Patients

  Takashi Shinagawa;Masao Onto;Kunio Kimura;Shigeyuki Tsunetomi

  392
  Citations

• Diagnosis and patient management of intraductal papillary-mucinous tumor of the pancreas by using peroral pancreatoscopy and intraductal ultrasonography.

  Taro Hara;Taketo Yamaguchi;Takeshi Ishihara;Toshio Tsuyuguchi

  352
  Citations

• Enhanced self-renewal capability in hepatic stem/progenitor cells drives cancer initiation.

  Tetsuhiro Chiba;Yun-Wen Zheng;Kaoru Kita;Osamu Yokosuka

  273
  Citations

• Percutaneous ethanol injection for small hepatocellular carcinoma: Therapeutic efficacy based on 20-year observation

  Masaaki Ebara;Shinichiro Okabe;Kazuhiko Kita;Nobuyuki Sugiura

  265
  Citations

• Diagnosis of small hepatocellular carcinoma: correlation of MR imaging and tumor histologic studies.

  M Ebara;M Ohto;Y Watanabe;K Kimura

  246
  Citations

• Telomerase activity and telomere length in hepatocellular carcinoma and chronic liver disease

  Hiroshige Kojima;Osamu Yokosuka;Fumio Imazeki;Hiromitsu Saisho

  218
  Citations

• Risk factors for recurrent bile duct stones after endoscopic papillotomy

  T Ando;T Tsuyuguchi;T Okugawa;M Saito

  204
  Citations

• Quantitative analysis of bowel gas using plain abdominal radiograph in patients with irritable bowel syndrome.

  Akinori Koide;Taketo Yamaguchi;Takeo Odaka;Hidehiko Koyama;Hidehiko Koyama

  202
  Citations

• Congenital cystic dilatation of the common bile duct: relationship to anomalous pancreaticobiliary ductal union

  K Kimura;M Ohto;T Ono;Y Tsuchiya

  186
  Citations

• Influence of steroid therapy on the course of diabetes mellitus in patients with autoimmune pancreatitis: findings from a nationwide survey in Japan.

  Isao Nishimori;Akiko Tamakoshi;Shigeyuki Kawa;Shigeki Tanaka

  180
  Citations

• Elevated plasma levels of matrix metalloproteinase-9 (92-kd type IV collagenase/gelatinase B) in hepatocellular carcinoma.

  A Hayasaka;N Suzuki;N Fujimoto;S Iwama

  175
  Citations

• Small Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Relationship of Signal Intensity to Histopathologic Findings and Metal Content of the Tumor and Surrounding Hepatic Parenchyma

  Masaaki Ebara;Hiroyuki Fukuda;Yohei Kojima;Naoki Morimoto

  170
  Citations

• Phase I trial of oral S-1 combined with gemcitabine in metastatic pancreatic cancer.

  K Nakamura;T Yamaguchi;T Ishihara;A Kobayashi

  166
  Citations

• Overexpression of Mitochondrial Manganese Superoxide Dismutase Protects against Radiation-induced Cell Death in the Human Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cell Line HLE

  Shigeatsu Motoori;Hideyuki J. Majima;Masaaki Ebara;Hirotoshi Kato

  164
  Citations