Akira Tangoku
Professor
Faculty of Medicine
University of Tokushima
Japan
Biography
Akira Tangoku has done his PhD from Yamaguchi University in 1987. Currently he is working as Professor at Tokushima University. His research interests are Medicine, Surgery, less invasive surgery (cancer therapy, sentinel lymph node). Several papers of his work were pubished in reputed international journals. He is also the member of Japanese Society for Gastrointestinal Surgery, Japan Surgical Society, American Society of Clinical Oncology, The International Society for Diseases of the Esophagus, International Society of Surgery.
Research Interest
Medicine, Surgery, less invasive surgery (cancer therapy, sentinel lymph node).
Publications
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Naoaya Kawakita, Hiromitsu Takizawa, Kazuya Kondo, Shoji Sakiyama and Akira Tangoku. ndocyanine Green Fluorescence Navigation Thoracoscopic Metastasectomy for Pulmonary Metastasis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Annals of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2016, 22(6): 367-369.
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Naoaya Kawakita, Hiromitsu Takizawa, Koichiro Kajiura and Akira Tangoku. Indocyanine Green Fluorescence Intraoperative Imaging for Hepatic Hydrothorax With a Small Diaphragmatic Defect. Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2016, 28(2): 606-608.
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Koichiro Kajiura, Kiyoshi Masuda, Takuya Naruto, Tomohiro Kohmoto, Miki Watabnabe, Mitsuhiro Tsuboi, Hiromitsu Takizawa, Kazuya Kondo, Akira Tangoku and Issei Imoto. Frequent silencing of the candidate tumor suppressor TRIM58 by promoter methylation in early-stage lung adenocarcinoma. Oncotarget. 2017, 8(2): 2890-2905.
