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Itaru Endo is affiliated with Yokohama City University in Japan and has a significant publication record primarily in the field of medicine, with an emphasis on oncology, surgery, and hepatology. Their research spans over 1,100 publications focusing on diverse subfields including oncology (340 publications), surgery (295 publications), pulmonary and respiratory medicine (209 publications), cancer research (104 publications), and hepatology (99 publications).

The main topics of their research work include:

  • Cholangiocarcinoma and Gallbladder Cancer Studies
  • Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research
  • Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis
  • Gallbladder and Bile Duct Disorders
  • Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes
  • Colorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments
  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment

Itaru Endo has contributed to several recent papers notable for their publication venues and citation counts:

  • "Liver metastases," 2021, published in Nature Reviews Disease Primers
  • "Very Early Recurrence After Liver Resection for Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma," 2020, JAMA Surgery
  • "Clinical practice guidelines for the management of biliary tract cancers 2019: The 3rd English edition," 2020, Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Sciences
  • "M1 Macrophage and M1/M2 ratio defined by transcriptomic signatures resemble only part of their conventional clinical characteristics in breast cancer," 2020, Scientific Reports
  • "CD8 T Cell Score as a Prognostic Biomarker for Triple Negative Breast Cancer," 2020, International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • George A. Poultsides
  • Ryusei Matsuyama
  • Timothy M. Pawlik
  • Hugo P. Marques
  • Luca Aldrighetti

The scientists frequently publish in the following venues:

  • Annals of Surgical Oncology
  • Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Sciences
  • HPB
  • Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery
  • Cancers

Best Publications

  • Tokyo Guidelines 2018: diagnostic criteria and severity grading of acute cholecystitis (with videos).

    Masamichi Yokoe;Jiro Hata;Tadahiro Takada;Steven M. Strasberg

  • Tokyo Guidelines 2018: flowchart for the management of acute cholecystitis.

    Kohji Okamoto;Kenji Suzuki;Tadahiro Takada;Steven M. Strasberg

  • Biomarkers for the early diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma.

    Nobuhiro Tsuchiya;Yu Sawada;Itaru Endo;Keigo Saito

  • Tokyo Guidelines 2018 surgical management of acute cholecystitis: safe steps in laparoscopic cholecystectomy for acute cholecystitis (with videos)

    Go Wakabayashi;Yukio Iwashita;Taizo Hibi;Tadahiro Takada

  • Tokyo Guidelines 2018: antimicrobial therapy for acute cholangitis and cholecystitis.

    Harumi Gomi;Joseph S. Solomkin;David Schlossberg;Kohji Okamoto

  • The Tumor Burden Score: A New "Metro-ticket" Prognostic Tool For Colorectal Liver Metastases Based on Tumor Size and Number of Tumors.

    Kazunari Sasaki;Daisuke Morioka;Simone Conci;Georgios A. Margonis

  • Tokyo Guidelines 2018: initial management of acute biliary infection and flowchart for acute cholangitis

    Fumihiko Miura;Kohji Okamoto;Tadahiro Takada;Steven M. Strasberg

  • Clinical practice guidelines for the management of biliary tract cancers 2015: the 2nd English edition

    Masaru Miyazaki;Hideyuki Yoshitomi;Shuichi Miyakawa;Katsuhiko Uesaka

  • Outcome after simultaneous colorectal and hepatic resection for colorectal cancer with synchronous metastases

    Kuniya Tanaka;Hiroshi Shimada;Kenichi Matsuo;Yasuhiko Nagano

  • Tokyo Guidelines 2018: management strategies for gallbladder drainage in patients with acute cholecystitis (with videos).

    Yasuhisa Mori;Takao Itoi;Todd H. Baron;Tadahiro Takada

  • Risk Factors and Management of Bile Leakage after Hepatic Resection

    Yasuhiko Nagano;Shinji Togo;Kuniya Tanaka;Hidenori Masui

  • Tokyo Guidelines 2018 management bundles for acute cholangitis and cholecystitis

    Toshihiko Mayumi;Kohji Okamoto;Tadahiro Takada;Steven M. Strasberg

  • The Blumgart Preoperative Staging System for Hilar Cholangiocarcinoma: Analysis of Resectability and Outcomes in 380 Patients

    Kenichi Matsuo;Flavio G. Rocha;Kaori Ito;Michael I. D'Angelica

  • A nomogram predicting disease-free survival in patients with colorectal liver metastases treated with hepatic resection: multicenter data collection as a Project Study for Hepatic Surgery of the Japanese Society of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery

    Toru Beppu;Yoshihiro Sakamoto;Kiyoshi Hasegawa;Goro Honda

  • Surgical outcomes in gastroenterological surgery in Japan: Report of National Clinical database 2011-2016.

    Hiroshi Hasegawa;Arata Takahashi;Yoshihiro Kakeji;Hideki Ueno

  • Classification of biliary tract cancers established by the Japanese Society of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery: 3(rd) English edition.

    Masaru Miyazaki;Masayuki Ohtsuka;Shuichi Miyakawa;Masato Nagino

  • Exosomal miRNAs from Peritoneum Lavage Fluid as Potential Prognostic Biomarkers of Peritoneal Metastasis in Gastric Cancer.

    Motohiko Tokuhisa;Yasushi Ichikawa;Nobuyoshi Kosaka;Takahiro Ochiya

  • Phase II study of the GPC3-derived peptide vaccine as an adjuvant therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma patients

    Yu Sawada;Toshiaki Yoshikawa;Kazuya Ofuji;Mayuko Yoshimura

  • Indocyanine green fluorescence imaging to reduce the risk of anastomotic leakage in laparoscopic low anterior resection for rectal cancer: a propensity score-matched cohort study

    Jun Watanabe;Atsushi Ishibe;Yusuke Suwa;Hirokazu Suwa

  • Efficacy of tumor-targeting Salmonella typhimurium A1-R in combination with anti-angiogenesis therapy on a pancreatic cancer patient-derived orthotopic xenograft (PDOX) and cell line mouse models

    Yukihiko Hiroshima;Yong Zhang;Takashi Murakami;Ali Maawy

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert M. Hoffman
Robert M. Hoffman AntiCancer (United States)
Michael Bouvet
Michael Bouvet University of California, San Diego
Kazuaki Takabe
Kazuaki Takabe Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Timothy M. Pawlik
Timothy M. Pawlik The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
Luca Aldrighetti
Luca Aldrighetti Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Masakazu Yamamoto
Masakazu Yamamoto Tohoku University
Li Yan
Li Yan Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
Olivier Soubrane
Olivier Soubrane Beaujon Hospital
Ming Zhao
Ming Zhao Pfizer (United States)
Atsushi Nakajima
Atsushi Nakajima Yokohama City University

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