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List of works by Brian Hung-Hin Lang

A Comparison of Surgical Morbidity and Scar Appearance Between Gasless, Transaxillary Endoscopic Thyroidectomy (GTET) and Minimally Invasive Video-Assisted Thyroidectomy (VAT) ⬇️

scientific article published on September 1, 2012

A comparison of surgical outcomes between endoscopic and robotically assisted thyroidectomy: the authors' initial experience.

scientific article

A cost-effectiveness comparison between early surgery and non-surgical approach for incidental papillary thyroid microcarcinoma

scientific article published on 23 June 2015

A cost-utility analysis for prophylactic central neck dissection in clinically nodal-negative papillary thyroid carcinoma

scientific article

A germline mutation (A339V) in thyroid transcription factor-1 (TITF-1/NKX2.1) in patients with multinodular goiter and papillary thyroid carcinoma

scientific journal article

A phase II trial of vinorelbine and pegylated liposomal doxorubicin in patients with pretreated metastatic breast cancer

scientific article published in April 2007

A prospective evaluation of preoperative localization by technetium-99m sestamibi scintigraphy and ultrasonography in primary hyperparathyroidism

scientific article published on 01 February 2007

A prospective evaluation of quick intraoperative parathyroid hormone assay at the time of skin closure in predicting clinically relevant hypocalcemia after thyroidectomy.

scientific article

A prospective study comparing the midline and lateral trans-laryngeal ultrasonography approaches in vocal cord assessment before and after thyroid and neck surgeries

scientific article published in 2022

A prospective study evaluating the use of low-dose intravenous sedation and analgesia during radiofrequency ablation of symptomatic, benign thyroid nodules

scientific article published in 2022

A prospective, assessor-blind evaluation of surgeon-performed transcutaneous laryngeal ultrasonography in vocal cord examination before and after thyroidectomy

scientific article published on 19 August 2013

A randomized trial comparing health-related quality-of-life and utility measures between routine fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) and surveillance alone in patients with thyroid incidentaloma measuring 1-2 cm

scientific article published on 18 November 2019

A review of risk factors and timing for postoperative hematoma after thyroidectomy: is outpatient thyroidectomy really safe?

scientific article

A systematic review and meta-analysis comparing outcomes between robotic-assisted thyroidectomy and non-robotic endoscopic thyroidectomy.

scientific article published on 16 April 2014

A systematic review and meta-analysis comparing surgically-related complications between robotic-assisted thyroidectomy and conventional open thyroidectomy.

scientific article

A systematic review and meta-analysis comparing the efficacy and surgical outcomes of total thyroidectomy between harmonic scalpel versus ligasure.

scientific article published on 11 January 2013

A systematic review and meta-analysis evaluating completeness and outcomes of robotic thyroidectomy

scientific article

A systematic review and meta-analysis on acoustic voice parameters after uncomplicated thyroidectomy.

scientific article published on 07 July 2015

A systematic review of quality of thyroid-specific health-related quality-of-life instruments recommends ThyPRO for patients with benign thyroid diseases

scientific article published on 25 March 2016

Accurate use of neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio in predicting prognosis of papillary thyroid carcinoma: reply

scientific article published in December 2014

Advances in the systemic treatment of neuroendocrine tumors in the era of molecular therapy

scientific article published on March 1, 2013

Assessing perioperative body weight changes in patients thyroidectomized for a benign nontoxic nodular goitre

scientific article published on 19 September 2015

Assessing the Validity of Transcutaneous Laryngeal Ultrasonography (TLUSG) After Thyroidectomy: What Factors Matter?

scientific article published on 17 October 2014

Assessing the short- and long-term outcomes after resection of benign insulinoma

scientific article published on 23 October 2014

Benign nodular goitre presenting as acute airway obstruction

scientific article published on 01 May 2007

Bilateral Pheochromocytomas in MEN2A Syndrome: A Two-Institution Experience

scientific article

Cancer: QTNM: a simplified TNM or just another staging system?

scientific article published on 01 October 2009

Changes in serum thyroglobulin and antithyroglobulin shortly following high-intensity focused ablation of benign thyroid nodules in patients with positive antithyroglobulin status

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Changing trend in surgical indication and management for Graves' disease

scientific article published on 17 June 2011

Classical and follicular variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma: a comparative study on clinicopathologic features and long-term outcome.

scientific article

Clinicopathologic predictors for early and late biochemical hypothyroidism after hemithyroidectomy

scientific article published on 23 June 2011

Clinicopathological roles of alterations of tumor suppressor gene p16 in papillary thyroid carcinoma

scientific article published on 31 December 2006

Combining high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) ablation with percutaneous ethanol injection (PEI) in the treatment of benign thyroid nodules

scientific article published on 24 September 2020

Congenital adrenal hyperplasia presenting as a large adrenal incidentaloma in an elderly man

scientific article published on 12 November 2014

Cost-effectiveness of fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) and watchful observation for incidental thyroid nodules

scientific article published on 19 April 2020

Determining the Learning Curve of Transcutaneous Laryngeal Ultrasound in Vocal Cord Assessment by CUSUM Analysis of Eight Surgical Residents: When to Abandon Laryngoscopy.

scientific article published on 19 November 2015

Does microscopically involved margin increase disease recurrence after curative surgery in papillary thyroid carcinoma?

scientific article published on 4 February 2016

Does preoperative 25-hydroxyvitamin D status significantly affect the calcium kinetics after total thyroidectomy?

scientific article published in July 2013

Does preoperative neutrophil lymphocyte ratio predict risk of recurrence and occult central nodal metastasis in papillary thyroid carcinoma?

scientific article published on October 2014

Does using an energized device in open thyroidectomy reduce complications?

scientific article published on 22 June 2012

Dysregulation of clathrin promotes thyroid cell growth and contributes to multinodular goiter pathogenesis

scientific article published on 13 May 2015

EQ-5D-5L and SF-6D Utility Measures in Symptomatic benign Thyroid Nodules: Acceptability and Psychometric Evaluation

scientific article published on 21 February 2017

Effect of Thyroid Remnant Volume on the Risk of Hypothyroidism After Hemithyroidectomy: A Prospective Study

scientific article published on 5 January 2017

Effect of perithyroidal lignocaine infusion (PLI) to pain experienced during high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) ablation of benign thyroid nodules

scientific article published on 27 March 2019

Elevation of methylated DNA in KILLIN/PTEN in the plasma of patients with thyroid and/or breast cancer

scientific article

Endoscopic vs robotic thyroidectomy: which is better?

scientific article published on 10 June 2011

Epigastric hernia and its etiology

scientific article published on 13 July 2002

Eucalcemic Parathyroid Hormone Elevation After Parathyroidectomy for Primary Sporadic Hyperparathyroidism: Risk Factors, Trend, and Outcome ⬇️

scientific article published on July 6, 2011

Evaluating the Incidence, Cause, and Risk Factors for Unplanned 30-Day Readmission and Emergency Department/General Practitioner Visit After Short-Stay Thyroidectomy

scientific article published on 26 August 2015

Evaluating the Prognostic Factors Associated with Cancer-specific Survival of Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma Presenting with Distant Metastasis ⬇️

scientific article published on October 28, 2012

Evaluating the cost-effectiveness of laryngeal examination after elective total thyroidectomy

scientific article published on 28 May 2014

Evaluating the efficacy of primary treatment for graves' disease complicated by thyrotoxic periodic paralysis

scientific article

Evaluating the incidence, clinical significance and predictors for vocal cord palsy and incidental laryngopharyngeal conditions before elective thyroidectomy: is there a case for routine laryngoscopic examination?

scientific article published on 01 February 2014

Evaluating the morbidity and efficacy of reoperative surgery in the central compartment for persistent/recurrent papillary thyroid carcinoma

scientific article published on 01 December 2013

Evaluation of pain during high-intensity focused ultrasound ablation of benign thyroid nodules.

scientific article published on 12 January 2018

Factors affecting the adequacy of lymph node yield in prophylactic unilateral central neck dissection for papillary thyroid carcinoma

scientific article published on 20 June 2012

Feasibility on the Use of Intraoperative Vagal Nerve Stimulation in Gasless, Transaxillary Endoscopic, and Robotic-Assisted Thyroidectomy ⬇️

scientific article published on October 19, 2011

Genetics of Apparently Sporadic Pheochromocytoma and Paraganglioma in a Chinese Population.

scientific article published on 12 August 2015

Graves' ophthalmopathy as an indication increased the risk of hypoparathyroidism after bilateral thyroidectomy

scientific article

High False Positivity in Positron Emission Tomography is a Potential Diagnostic Pitfall in Patients with Suspected Adrenal Metastasis.

scientific article published in August 2015

High intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) ablation of benign thyroid nodule is safe and efficacious in patients who continue taking an anti-coagulation or anti-platelet agent in the treatment period

scientific article published on 16 December 2018

High intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) ablation of benign thyroid nodules - a systematic review.

scientific article

High pre-operative urinary norepinephrine is an independent determinant of peri-operative hemodynamic instability in unilateral pheochromocytoma/paraganglioma removal

scientific article published on 01 September 2014

High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound for Treatment of Symptomatic Benign Thyroid Nodules: A Prospective Study

scientific article published on 18 April 2017

High-intensity focused ablation (HIFU) of single benign thyroid nodule rarely alters underlying thyroid function.

scientific article published on 24 April 2017

High-intensity focused ultrasound ablation as a treatment for benign thyroid diseases: the present and future

scientific article published on 09 November 2018

How useful are perioperative biochemical parameters in predicting the duration of calcium and/or vitamin D supplementation after total thyroidectomy?

scientific article published in November 2013

Identifying predictive factors for efficacy in high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) ablation of benign thyroid nodules - a retrospective analysis

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Impact of microscopic extra-nodal extension (ENE) on locoregional recurrence following curative surgery for papillary thyroid carcinoma

scientific article published on 21 January 2016

Impact of second primary malignancy on outcomes of differentiated thyroid carcinoma

scientific article published in December 2010

Incidental Thyroid Carcinoma by FDG-PET/CT: A Study of Clinicopathological Characteristics ⬇️

scientific article published on August 26, 2010

Indocyanine green fluorescence angiography for quantitative evaluation of in situ parathyroid gland perfusion and function after total thyroidectomy.

scientific article published on 10 November 2016

Influence of laparoscopy on postoperative recurrence and survival in patients with ruptured hepatocellular carcinoma undergoing hepatic resection

scientific article published on April 2004

Initial attributable cost and economic burden of clinically-relevant differentiated thyroid cancer: A health care service provider perspective

scientific article published on 31 January 2015

Intraoperative parathyroid hormone (IOPTH) assay might be better than the second-generation assay in parathyroidectomy for primary hyperparathyroidism

scientific article published on 10 May 2020

Is BRAFV600E mutation a marker for central nodal metastasis in small papillary thyroid carcinoma?

scientific article

Is vocal cord asymmetry seen on transcutaneous laryngeal ultrasonography a significant predictor of voice quality changes after thyroidectomy?

scientific article published on 01 March 2014

Lessons Learned After 1000 Cases of Transcutaneous Laryngeal Ultrasound (TLUSG) with Laryngoscopic Validation: Is There a Role of TLUSG in Patients Indicated for Laryngoscopic Examination Before Thyroidectomy?

scientific article published on 01 January 2017

Lobectomy is a more Cost-Effective Option than Total Thyroidectomy for 1 to 4 cm Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma that do not Possess Clinically Recognizable High-Risk Features

scientific article published on 24 May 2016

Long term survival analysis of hepatectomy for neuroendocrine tumour liver metastases.

scientific article

Long-term outcomes for older patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma: should another age cutoff beyond 45 years be added?

scientific article published on 05 September 2014

Measurement properties of ThyPRO short-form (ThyPRO-39) for use in Chinese patients with benign thyroid diseases

scientific article published on 18 April 2018

Minimally invasive thyroid and parathyroid operations: surgical techniques and pearls.

scientific article published on January 2010

New molecular targeted therapy and redifferentiation therapy for radioiodine-refractory advanced papillary thyroid carcinoma: literature review

scientific article published on 24 December 2012

Outcomes of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma presenting with variceal bleeding

scientific article published on 01 November 2004

Pain and surgical outcomes with and without neck extension in standard open thyroidectomy: a prospective randomized trial

scientific article published on 25 April 2014

Papillary microcarcinoma: is there any difference between clinically overt and occult tumors?

scientific article published on 01 May 2006

Parathyroid cancer

scientific article published on 01 July 2006

Parathyroid carcinoma in a 30-year-old man: a diagnostic and management challenge

scientific article

Perioperative and long-term outcome of major hepatic resection for small solitary hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with cirrhosis

scientific article published on 01 November 2003

Possible Impact of Incremental Cost-Effectiveness Ratio (ICER) on Decision Making for Cancer Screening in Hong Kong: A Systematic Review.

scientific article

Postablation Stimulated Thyroglobulin Level is an Important Predictor of Biochemical Complete Remission after Reoperative Cervical Neck Dissection in Persistent/Recurrent Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma ⬇️

scientific article published on September 7, 2012

Postoperative nomogram for predicting disease-specific death and recurrence in papillary thyroid carcinoma

scientific article

Predictive factors and pattern of locoregional recurrence after prophylactic central neck dissection in papillary thyroid carcinoma

scientific article published on 03 July 2014

Primitive neuroectodermal adrenal gland tumour

scientific article published on 01 October 2014

Prognostic factors in papillary and follicular thyroid carcinoma: their implications for cancer staging.

scientific article published on 11 November 2006

Restaging of differentiated thyroid carcinoma by the sixth edition AJCC/UICC TNM staging system: stage migration and predictability

scientific article published on 21 February 2007

Revisiting robotic approaches to endocrine neoplasia: do the data support their continued use?

scientific article

Risk factors for nonsynchronous second primary malignancy and related death in patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma.

scientific article published on 15 May 2011

Risk of second primary malignancy in differentiated thyroid carcinoma treated with radioactive iodine therapy

scientific article published on 15 February 2012

Role of second high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) treatment for unsatisfactory benign thyroid nodules after first treatment

scientific article published on 07 August 2018

Role of surgery in pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor

scientific article

Sequential high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) ablation in the treatment of benign multinodular goitre: an observational retrospective study.

scientific article published on 19 March 2018

Should an involved but functioning recurrent laryngeal nerve be shaved or resected in a locally advanced papillary thyroid carcinoma?

scientific article published on 01 May 2013

Significance of Size of Persistent/Recurrent Central Nodal Disease on Surgical Morbidity and Response to Therapy in Reoperative Neck Dissection for Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma.

scientific article published on 17 October 2016

Significance of metastatic lymph node ratio on stimulated thyroglobulin levels in papillary thyroid carcinoma after prophylactic unilateral central neck dissection

scientific article published on 12 October 2011

Significance of size of lymph node metastasis on postsurgical stimulated thyroglobulin levels after prophylactic unilateral central neck dissection in papillary thyroid carcinoma

scientific article

Single-Session High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound Treatment for Persistent or Relapsed Graves Disease: Preliminary Experience in a Prospective Study.

scientific article published on 20 July 2017

Single-Session High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound Treatment in Large-Sized Benign Thyroid Nodules

scientific article published on 22 March 2017

Single-session high intensity focussed ablation (HIFU) versus open cervical hemithyroidectomy for benign thyroid nodule: analysis on early efficacy, safety and voice quality.

scientific article published on 24 March 2017

Staging systems for follicular thyroid carcinoma: application to 171 consecutive patients treated in a tertiary referral centre.

scientific article published on March 2007

Staging systems for papillary thyroid carcinoma: a study of 2 tertiary referral centers

scientific article published on 01 July 2007

Surgical options in undifferentiated thyroid carcinoma.

scientific article published on May 2007

Systematic review and meta-analysis on intra-operative neuro-monitoring in high-risk thyroidectomy

scientific article published on 26 December 2016

Technological innovations in surgical approach for thyroid cancer

scientific article published on 27 July 2010

The Association of Discolored Parathyroid Glands and Hypoparathyroidism Following Total Thyroidectomy.

scientific article

The Potential Role of Preoperative Trabecular Bone Score in Predicting Changes in Bone Mineral Density After Parathyroidectomy

scientific article published on 26 October 2020

The Role of 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography in the Prognostication, Diagnosis, and Management of Thyroid Carcinoma

scientific article

The efficacy and safety of high-intensity focused ultrasound ablation of benign thyroid nodules

scientific article published on 10 October 2017

The importance of sonographic landmarks by transcutaneous laryngeal ultrasonography in post-thyroidectomy vocal cord assessment.

scientific article published on 11 November 2014

The percentage of serum thyroglobulin rise in the first-week did not predict the eventual success of high-intensity focussed ablation (HIFU) for benign thyroid nodules.

scientific article published on 10 August 2017

The potential clinical relevance of serum vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and VEGF-C in recurrent papillary thyroid carcinoma

scientific article published on 01 December 2008

The role of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in thyroid neoplasms

scientific article published on 04 March 2011

The role of intraoperative neuromonitoring of recurrent laryngeal nerve during thyroidectomy: a comparative study on 1000 nerves at risk

scientific article published on 18 September 2006

The role of prophylactic central neck dissection in differentiated thyroid carcinoma: issues and controversies.

scientific article published on 29 September 2011

The significance of unrecognized histological high-risk features on response to therapy in papillary thyroid carcinoma measuring 1-4 cm: implications for completion thyroidectomy following lobectomy

scientific article

The total number of tissue blocks per centimetre of tumor significantly correlated with the risk of distant metastasis in patients with minimally invasive follicular thyroid carcinoma

scientific article published on 7 December 2016

Thyroid Surgery for Elderly Patients: Are They at Increased Operative Risks? ⬇️

scientific article published on August 16, 2012

Thyroid arsenic content and papillary thyroid carcinoma arising 10 years after oral arsenic trioxide therapy for refractory acute promyelocytic leukemia

scientific article published on 23 September 2013

To identify or not to identify parathyroid glands during total thyroidectomy.

scientific article published in December 2017

Total thyroidectomy for multinodular goiter in the elderly

scientific article published on 01 September 2005

Treatment outcomes in anaplastic thyroid carcinoma: survival improvement in young patients with localized disease treated by combination of surgery and radiotherapy

scientific article published on 26 June 2008

Two sequential applications of high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) ablation for large benign thyroid nodules

scientific article published on 18 February 2019

Two-year efficacy of single-session high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) ablation of benign thyroid nodules

scientific article published on 19 June 2018

Two-year outcomes of single-session high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) treatment in persistent or relapsed Graves' disease

scientific article published on 17 June 2019

Use of radiofrequency ablation in benign thyroid nodules: a literature review and updates

scientific article

Using Intra-Operative Laryngeal Ultrasonography as a Real-Time Tool in Assessing Vocal Cord Function During Radiofrequency Ablation of the Thyroid Gland

scientific article published in 2022

Using Transcutaneous Laryngeal Ultrasonography (TLUSG) to Assess Post-thyroidectomy Patients' Vocal Cords: Which Maneuver Best Optimizes Visualization and Assessment Accuracy?

scientific article published on 9 November 2015

Utility of Activated Carbon Nanoparticle (CNP) During total Thyroidectomy for Clinically Nodal Positive Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma (PTC)

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

Validation and Comparison of Nomograms in Predicting Disease-Specific Survival for Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma

scientific article published in August 2015

Visualizing fewer parathyroid glands may be associated with lower hypoparathyroidism following total thyroidectomy

scientific article

Vitamin D3 deficiency is associated with late-onset hypocalcemia after minimally invasive parathyroidectomy in a vitamin D borderline area

scientific article published in June 2010

Vocal cord paresis following single-session high intensity focused ablation (HIFU) treatment of benign thyroid nodules: incidence and risk factors

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