Kazuma Ishikawa

EUS-guided hepaticogastrostomy versus EUS-guided hepaticogastrostomy with antegrade stent placement in patients with unresectable malignant distal biliary obstruction: a propensity score–matched case-control study

Hirotoshi Ishiwatari, Takeshi Ogura, Susumu Hijioka et al. · Gastrointestinal Endoscopy · 2024 · 33 citations

Medicine, Surgery, Gastroenterology +15

Endoscopic ultrasound‐guided hepaticogastrostomy versus hepaticogastrostomy with antegrade stenting for malignant distal biliary obstruction

Hirotoshi Ishiwatari, Kazuma Ishikawa, Fumitaka Niiya et al. · Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Sciences · 2022 · 29 citations

Medicine, Surgery, Gastroenterology +16

Evaluation of the Japanese Metabolic Syndrome Risk Score (JAMRISC): a newly developed questionnaire used as a screening tool for diagnosing metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance in Japan

Ce Tan, Yutaka Sasagawa, Ken‐ichi Kamo et al. · Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine · 2016 · 27 citations · Full text

Medicine, Chronic Disease Prevention, Endocrinology +17

Macroscopic visible core length can predict the histological sample quantity in endoscopic ultrasound‐guided tissue acquisition: Multicenter prospective study

Junichi Kaneko, Hirotoshi Ishiwatari, Keiko Sasaki et al. · Digestive Endoscopy · 2021 · 26 citations

Medicine, Oncology, Pathology +17

BAK is a predictive and prognostic biomarker for the therapeutic effect of docetaxel treatment in patients with advanced gastric cancer

Tomohiro Kubo, Yutaka Kawano, Nobuaki Himuro et al. · Gastric Cancer · 2015 · 23 citations · Full text

Medicine, Oncology, Pharmacology +14