Daejoon Kim
Yonsei University · Medicine
About the Lab
Professor Daejoon Kim's research lab specializes in thoracic surgery and oncology, with a strong focus on improving outcomes in esophageal and lung cancer through advanced surgical techniques, personalized treatment strategies, and translational research. The lab investigates the impact of neoadjuvant therapies—particularly immunotherapy combined with chemoradiation—on surgical feasibility and patient outcomes, while also exploring imaging biomarkers for nodal staging. Additionally, the lab examines surgical innovations such as endoscopic stapler technologies and enhanced recovery protocols to optimize perioperative care and reduce complications.
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Selected Papers
15Radical esophagectomy for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma after neoadjuvant chemoradiation therapy with pembrolizumab may not increase the operative risk or reduce the quality of radical dissection including lymphadenectomy. The risk of ARDS after neoadjuvant neoadjuvant chemoradiation therapy with pembrolizumab has to be studied in the further analysis.
Background: Thoracoscopic lobectomy for lung cancer is a complex procedure where endoscopic staplers play a critical role in transecting the lung parenchyme, vasculature, and bronchus. This retrospective study was performed to investigate the economic benefits of powered and tissue-specific endoscopic staplers such as gripping surface technology (GST) and powered vascular stapler (PVS) compared to standard staplers.Methods: Two hundred and seventy-five patients who received a thoracoscopic lobec
BACKGROUND: We measured the sizes of metastatic lymph nodes and the relationships thereof by (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computer tomography (PET/CT). We identified risk factors for nodal upstaging in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). METHODS: Eighty-five patients with ESCC who underwent esophagectomy with extensive mediastinal lymphadenectomy were assessed. Two radiologists blinded to pathology data reviewed PET/CT scans, evaluating both primary
OBJECTIVE: Neurotrophins are known to exert a variety of pleiotropic responses in different target tissues, but little is known about their effect on thymic epithelial tumors. Therefore, we analyzed the expression of neurotrophin receptors in surgically resected thymic epithelial tumors and evaluated their clinical relevance. METHODS: The expression of neurotrophin receptors (Trk-A, Trk-B, Trk-C and p75(NTR)) in thymic epithelial tumors was evaluated in 99 consecutive patients based on immunohis
title: A prospective randomized trial of continuous paravertebral infusion versus intravenous patient-controlled analgesia after thoracoscopic lobectomy for lung cancer, doi: 10.21037/jtd.2018.05.161, category: Article
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