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List of works by Yin-Kai Chao

A Pathological Study of Residual Cancer in the Esophageal Wall Following Neoadjuvant Chemoradiotherapy: Focus on Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma Patients with False Negative Preoperative Endoscopic Biopsies.

scientific article published on 12 February 2015

A Propensity-matched Analysis Comparing Survival After Esophagectomy Followed by Adjuvant Chemoradiation to Surgery Alone for Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma.

scientific article published on 25 November 2015

A comparison of efficacy and safety of preoperative versus intraoperative computed tomography-guided thoracoscopic lung resection

scientific article published on 20 July 2018

A single-center experience of 100 image-guided video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery procedures

scientific article published on 01 June 2018

An analysis of factors affecting the accuracy of endoscopic biopsy after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.

scientific article published on 16 October 2017

Anatomical distribution of residual cancer in patients with oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma who achieved clinically complete response after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy

scientific article published on 20 July 2017

Application of bronchoscope for the placement of nasoenteric feeding tube: new ideas from old ways.

scientific article published in June 2018

Association between the thoroughness of the histopathological examination and survival in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma who achieve pathological complete response after chemoradiotherapy

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Biodegradable drug-eluting pellets provide steady and sustainable cisplatin release in the intrapleural cavity: in vivo and in vitro studies.

scientific article published on 19 February 2015

Bronchoscopic finding determined outcome after chemoradiotherapy in esophageal cancer patients with airway invasion

scientific article published on 27 February 2014

Bullae ablation in primary spontaneous pneumothorax

scientific article published on 01 May 2009

Characterization of residual tumours at the primary site in patients with a near pathological complete response after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy for oesophageal cancer

scientific article published on 13 September 2016

Circulating Tumour Cells as an Independent Prognostic Factor in Patients with Advanced Oesophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma Undergoing Chemoradiotherapy.

scientific article published on 17 August 2016

Clinical Outcomes of Patients with Resected Oral Cavity Cancer and Simultaneous Second Primary Malignancies.

scientific article published on 3 September 2015

Clinical use of near-infrared fluorescence imaging with indocyanine green in thoracic surgery: a literature review

scientific article published on October 2016

Combining the radiomic features and traditional parameters of 18F-FDG PET with clinical profiles to improve prognostic stratification in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma treated with neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy and surgery

scientific article published on 19 June 2019

Comparative Short-Term Clinical Outcomes of Mediastinum Tumor Excision Performed by Conventional VATS and Single-Port VATS: Is It Worthwhile?

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Comparison of hemodynamic and inflammatory changes between transoral and transthoracic thoracoscopic surgery.

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Concordant podoplanin expression in cancer-associated fibroblasts and tumor cells is an adverse prognostic factor in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

scientific article (publication date: 2014)

Controlling difficult airway by rigid bronchoscope--an old but effective method.

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Correlation Between Tumor Regression Grade and Clinicopathological Parameters in Patients With Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Esophagus Who Received Neoadjuvant Chemoradiotherapy

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DSG3 facilitates cancer cell growth and invasion through the DSG3-plakoglobin-TCF/LEF-Myc/cyclin D1/MMP signaling pathway

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Detection of synchronous cancers by fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography during primary staging workup for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma in Taiwan

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Development of a nomogram for the prediction of pathological complete response after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

scientific article published on 21 November 2016

Distant nodal metastases from intrathoracic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma: characteristics of long-term survivors after chemoradiotherapy

scientific article published on 01 August 2010

Do dysplastic proximal resection margins predict the risk of anastomotic recurrence and overall survival in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma?

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Early Oral Feeding Following McKeown Minimally Invasive Esophagectomy: An Open-label, Randomized, Controlled, Noninferiority Trial

scientific article published on 25 May 2017

Electrocautery device does not provide adequate pulmonary vessel sealing in transumbilical anatomic pulmonary lobectomy.

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Extra-long Montgomery T tube in major airway stenosis.

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Extracapsular lymph node involvement in patients with esophageal cancer treated with neoadjuvant chemoradiation therapy followed by surgery: the closer you look, the less you see.

scientific article published in November 2017

Factors associated with false-negative endoscopic biopsy results after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

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Factors associated with survival in patients with oesophageal cancer who achieve pathological complete response after chemoradiotherapy: a nationwide population-based study

scientific article published on 11 July 2016

Favorable versus unfavorable prognostic groups by post-chemoradiation FDG-PET imaging in node-positive esophageal squamous cell carcinoma patients treated with definitive chemoradiotherapy.

scientific article published on 30 November 2017

Feasibility of endoscopic transoral thoracic surgical lung biopsy and pericardial window creation.

scientific article published on 7 April 2011

Granulation formation following tracheal stenosis stenting: influence of stent position

scientific article published on 01 December 2009

Granulation tissue formation following Dumon airway stenting: the influence of stent diameter

scientific article published on 08 April 2011

Hemodynamic and inflammatory responses following transumbilical and transthoracic lung wedge resection in a live canine model.

scientific article published on 11 March 2015

High expression of phosphorylated 4E-binding protein 1 is an adverse prognostic factor in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.

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High phosphorylated 4E-binding protein 1 expression after chemoradiotherapy is a predictor for locoregional recurrence and worse survival in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma patients.

scientific article published on 19 September 2011

Image-guided thoracoscopic lung resection using a dual-marker localization technique in a hybrid operating room

scientific article published on 04 June 2019

Image-guided video-assisted thoracoscopic small lung tumor resection using near-infrared marking

scientific article published on 04 June 2018

Image-guided video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for small ground glass opacities: a case series

scientific article published on 18 October 2017

Imaging-guided thoracoscopic resection of a ground-glass opacity lesion in a hybrid operating room equipped with a robotic C-arm CT system.

scientific article published on May 2017

Impact of circumferential resection margin distance on locoregional recurrence and survival after chemoradiotherapy in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.

scientific article published on 10 August 2010

Impact of the number of lymph nodes sampled on outcome in ypT0N0 esophageal squamous cell carcinoma patients.

scientific article published on 4 May 2012

Incidence and Predictors of Unsuspected Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Lymph Node Metastases After Neoadjuvant Chemoradiotherapy in Patients with Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma

scientific article published on 29 January 2018

Incorporated home-made long endotracheal tube: a useful option for treating mucus plugging following silicone stenting.

scientific article published in September 2007

Individualized Strategies for Intraoperative Localization of Non-palpable Pulmonary Nodules in a Hybrid Operating Room

scientific article published on 11 June 2019

Indocyanine green fluorescence-navigated robotic segmentectomy.

scientific article published on 11 November 2016

Induction therapy before surgery improves survival in patients with clinical T3N0 esophageal cancer: a nationwide study in Taiwan.

scientific article published in December 2017

Integrated genomic analyses in PDX model reveal a cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor Palbociclib as a novel candidate drug for nasopharyngeal carcinoma

scientific article published on 20 September 2018

Interval between neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy and surgery for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma: does delayed surgery impact outcome?

scientific article published on 01 December 2013

Intraoperative computed tomography-guided pulmonary tumour localization: a thoracic surgeon's learning curve

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Intrapulmonary lymph nodes: computed tomography findings with histopathologic correlations.

scientific article published on 25 October 2012

Learning curve of image-guided video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for small pulmonary nodules: A prospective analysis of 30 initial patients

scientific article published on 13 December 2017

Long-term outcomes after thoracoscopic resection of stage I and II thymoma: a propensity-matched study

scientific article published on 26 September 2014

Long-term outcomes following neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy in patients with clinical T2N0 esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

scientific article published on 23 September 2011

Lymph Node Evaluation in Robot-Assisted Versus Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Esophagectomy for Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma: A Propensity-Matched Analysis.

scientific article published on 11 August 2017

Lymph node dissection after chemoradiation in esophageal cancer: a subgroup analysis of patients with and without pathological response.

scientific article published on 24 May 2012

Lymph node dissection along the recurrent laryngeal nerves in patients with oesophageal cancer who had undergone chemoradiotherapy: is it safe?

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

Management of acute postoperative pain with continuous intercostal nerve block after single port video-assisted thoracoscopic anatomic resection.

scientific article published on December 2016

Management of intra-operative major bleeding during single-port video-assisted thoracoscopic anatomic resection: two-center experience

scientific article published on 26 September 2018

Management of lung metastases from colorectal cancer: video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery versus thoracotomy--a case-matched study.

scientific article published on 7 January 2012

Management of post-operative pain by placement of an intraoperative intercostal catheter after single port video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery: a propensity-score matched study

scientific article published on June 2016

On endocytoscopy and posttherapy pathologic staging in esophageal cancers, and on evidence-based methodology

scientific article published on 01 September 2014

Perineural invasion through the sheath in posttherapy esophagectomy specimens predicts poor survival in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.

scientific article published on 3 August 2017

Phosphorylated mTOR expression correlates with podoplanin expression and high tumor grade in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

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Postoperative Adjuvant Therapy Improves Survival in Pathologic Nonresponders After Neoadjuvant Chemoradiation for Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma: A Propensity-Matched Analysis

scientific article published on 22 July 2016

Predictive factors of postoperative complications in single-port video-assisted thoracoscopic anatomical resection: Two center experience

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

Predictive value of nodal maximum standardized uptake value of pretreatment [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography imaging in patients with esophageal cancer

scientific article published in August 2017

Predictors of pathological complete response to neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.

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Preoperative versus intraoperative image-guided localization of multiple ipsilateral lung nodules

scientific article published on 01 March 2020

Pretreatment clinical stage predicts locoregional recurrence in patients with esophageal cancer who achieved a complete clinical response to chemoradiotherapy

scientific article published on 26 December 2017

Prognosis of Patients With Pathologic T0 N+ Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma After Chemoradiotherapy and Surgical Resection: Results From a Nationwide Study.

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Prognosis of patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma who achieve major histopathological response after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy

scientific article published on 17 June 2016

Prognostic significance of high podoplanin expression after chemoradiotherapy in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma patients

scientific article published on 30 August 2011

Prognostic significance of immunohistochemically detected lymph node micrometastases in pT0N0 esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

scientific article published on 01 December 2009

Prognostic significance of lymphovascular invasion in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma treated with neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy

article by Wei-Hsun Chen et al published 15 July 2014 in Annals of Surgical Oncology

Pulmonary perfusion with L-arginine ameliorates post-cardiopulmonary bypass lung injury in a rabbit model

scientific article published on 24 November 2009

Quality-of-life measures as predictors of post-esophagectomy survival of patients with esophageal cancer

scientific article published on 4 August 2015

Risk factors in surgical management of thoracic empyema in elderly patients.

scientific article published in June 2008

Robotic McKeown esophagectomy with recurrent laryngeal nerve lymph node dissection: how I do it

scientific article published on 01 November 2020

Safety and oncological efficacy of bilateral recurrent laryngeal nerve lymph-node dissection after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma: a propensity-matched analysis

scientific article published on 19 August 2019

Salvage surgery after failed chemoradiotherapy in squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus

scientific article published on 08 April 2008

Saving time is saving lives: a delayed lobectomy predicts poorer overall survival in patients with clinical stage IA squamous cell carcinoma of the lung

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

Single-port video-assisted thoracoscopic mediastinal tumour resection

scientific article published on 13 August 2015

Single-stage localization and removal of small lung nodules through image-guided video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery.

scientific article published on 23 August 2017

Subxiphoid approach for video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery: an update.

scientific article published in June 2018

Subxiphoid video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery versus standard video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for anatomic pulmonary lobectomy

scientific article published on 21 August 2015

Surgical risk and outcome of repair versus replacement for late tricuspid regurgitation in redo operation

scientific article published on 01 March 2012

Survival outcomes of consolidation chemoradiotherapy in esophageal cancer patients who achieve clinical complete response but refuse surgery after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy.

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Sustained release of bactericidal concentrations of penicillin in the pleural space via an antibiotic-eluting pigtail catheter coated with electrospun nanofibers: results from in vivo and in vitro studies.

scientific article published on 4 May 2015

Transition from video-assisted thoracoscopic to robotic esophagectomy: a single surgeon's experience

scientific article published on 01 March 2020

Transketolase Serves a Poor Prognosticator in Esophageal Cancer by Promoting Cell Invasion via Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition.

scientific article published on 12 August 2016

Treatment of esophageal perforation in a referral center in taiwan.

scientific article published on January 2005

Tumor cell expression of podoplanin correlates with nodal metastasis in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

scientific article published on 01 August 2009

Unexpected Microscopically Positive Proximal Resection Margins in Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma After Chemoradiotherapy: Predictors and Prognostic Significance.

scientific article published on 11 October 2016

Using pretreatment tumor depth and length to select esophageal squamous cell carcinoma patients for nonoperative treatment after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy.

scientific article published on 13 April 2013

Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for catamenial hemoptysis: the rationale of preoperative computed tomography-guided hook-wire localization.

scientific article published in December 2006

miR-196, an Emerging Cancer Biomarker for Digestive Tract Cancers

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