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Kunio Okuda

Kunio Okuda

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Medicine

D-Index
80
Citations
24722
World Ranking
17062
National Ranking
541

Overview

Kunio Okuda was affiliated with Chiba University in Japan. Their research primarily focused on the field of Medicine, contributing a total of 139 publications, with a strong emphasis on subfields such as Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Neurology, Molecular Biology, Surgery, and Cancer Research.

The main topics addressed in Kunio Okuda's work included:

  • Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Myasthenia Gravis and Thymoma
  • Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations
  • Pleural and Pulmonary Diseases
  • Tracheal and airway disorders
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Neuroblastoma Research and Treatments

Throughout their academic career, Okuda published in several research venues, with multiple publications appearing in:

  • Translational Lung Cancer Research (7 publications)
  • Thoracic Cancer (7 publications)
  • Journal of Thoracic Disease (5 publications)
  • Research Square (4 publications)
  • Gland Surgery (3 publications)

Among the recent scientific papers associated with Okuda's research were:

  • "A signature of estimate-stromal-immune score-based genes associated with the prognosis of lung adenocarcinoma" (2021, Translational Lung Cancer Research)
  • "Combined use of the ProSeal laryngeal mask airway and a bronchial blocker vs. a double-lumen endobronchial tube in thoracoscopic surgery: A randomized controlled trial" (2023, Journal of Clinical Anesthesia)
  • "Mutation Profile of Thymic Carcinoma and Thymic Neuroendocrine Tumor by Targeted Next-generation Sequencing" (2020, Clinical Lung Cancer)
  • "Surgery versus stereotactic body radiotherapy for clinical stage I non-small-cell lung cancer: propensity score-matching analysis including the ratio of ground glass nodules" (2020, Clinical & Translational Oncology)
  • "Comprehensive genomic profiling of combined small cell lung cancer" (2021, Translational Lung Cancer Research)

Frequent co-authors working alongside Okuda included:

  • Ryoichi Nakanishi (24 co-authored works)
  • Keisuke Yokota (22 co-authored works)
  • Tsutomu Tatematsu (15 co-authored works)
  • Risa Oda (14 co-authored works)
  • Tadashi Sakane (12 co-authored works)

Best Publications

  • Natural history of hepatocellular carcinoma and prognosis in relation to treatment study of 850 patients

    Kunio Okuda;Toshio Ohtsuki;Hiroshi Obata;Masahiko Tomimatsu

  • The long-term pathological evolution of chronic hepatitis C

    M Yano;H Kumada;M Kage;K Ikeda

  • Hepatocellular carcinoma: Recent progress

    Kunio Okuda

  • Treatment of gastric fundal varices by balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration.

    Hiroshi Kanagawa;Satoaki Mima;Harukazu Kouyama;Kenichiroh Gotoh

  • 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

  • Portal hemodynamics in patients with gastric varices: A study in 230 patients with esophageal and/or gastric varices using portal vein catheterization

    Kiyoshi Watanabe;Kunio Kimura;Shoichi Matsutani;Masao Ohto

  • Incidence of portal vein thrombosis in liver cirrhosis: An angiographic study in 708 patients

    Kunio Okuda;Kunihiko Ohnishi;Kunio Kimura;Shoichi Matsutani

  • Primary liver cancers in Japan

    Kunio Okuda

  • Percutaneous transhepatic drainage of the biliary tract: Technique and results in 104 cases

    Toshimichi Nakayama;Toshimichi Nakayama;Akio Ikeda;Akio Ikeda;Kunio Okuda;Kunio Okuda

  • Early recognition of hepatocellular carcinoma.

    Kunio Okuda

  • Percutaneous ethanol injection for the treatment of small hepatocellular carcinoma. Study of 95 patients

    Masaaki Ebara;Masao Ohto;Nobuyuki Sugiura;Kazuhiko Kita

  • Association of gallbladder carcinoma and anomalous pancreaticobiliary ductal union

    Kunio Kimura;Masao Ohto;Hiromitsu Saisho;Takao Unozawa

  • Hepatocellular carcinoma detected by iodized oil.

    Y Yumoto;K Jinno;K Tokuyama;Y Araki

  • 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

  • Nonsurgical, percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography--diagnostic significance in medical problems of the liver.

    Kunio Okuda;Kyuichi Tanikawa;Takeshi Emura;Shintaro Kuratomi

  • Epidemiological and clinical features of Budd-Chiari syndrome in Japan

    Hiroaki Okuda;Hideharu Yamagata;Hiroshi Obata;Hirotoshi Iwata

  • Prognosis of primary hepatocellular carcinoma.

    Kunio Okuda;Hiroshi Obata;Yukio Nakajima;Toshio Ohtsuki

  • Clinical Study of Eighty-six Cases of Idiopathic Portal Hypertension and Comparison With Cirrhosis With Splenomegaly

    Kunio Okuda;Kunihiko Kong;Kunihiko Ohnishi;Kunio Kimura

  • Cholangiocarcinoma: recent progress. Part 1: epidemiology and etiology.

    Kunio Okuda;Yasuni Nakanuma;Masaru Miyazaki

  • Proposal of a new nomenclature for budd‐chiari syndrome: Hepatic vein thrombosis versus thrombosis of the inferior vena cava at its hepatic portion

    Kunio Okuda;Masayoshi Kage;Santosh M. Shrestha

Frequent Co-Authors

Osamu Yokosuka
Osamu Yokosuka Chiba University
Hiromitsu Saisho
Hiromitsu Saisho Chiba University
Fumio Imazeki
Fumio Imazeki Chiba University
Masao Omata
Masao Omata University of Tokyo
Masamichi Kojiro
Masamichi Kojiro Kurume University
Yasuni Nakanuma
Yasuni Nakanuma Kanazawa University
Hiromasa Ishii
Hiromasa Ishii Keio University
Kiwamu Okita
Kiwamu Okita Yamaguchi University
Fumio Tsuda
Fumio Tsuda Toshiba (Japan)
Hiromitsu Kumada
Hiromitsu Kumada Fukuoka University

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