Received: April 27, 2009 Accepted for publication: September 11, 2009 From the Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Tung’s Taichung MetroHarbor Wuci Branch Hospital, Taichung City, Taiwan Address reprint requests and correspondence: Dr. Chao-Ming Shih Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Tung’s Taichung MetroHarbor Wuci Branch Hospital, Taichung City, Taiwan 699 Se...

Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan* School of Medicine, Chung-Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan** Institute of Medicine, Chung-Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan*** School of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan**** Received: April, 2009 Revised: May, 2009 Accepted: June, 2009 Correspondenc...

*1Department of Veterinary Medicine, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan *2Department of Nuclear Medicine, Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan *3Isotope Application Division, Institute of Nuclear Energy Research, Taoyuan, Taiwan *4Department of Nuclear Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan *5Department of Nuclear Medicine, China Medical College H...

cancer cells Shun-Fa Yang, Mu-Kuan Chen, Yih-Shou Hsieh, Tsung-Te Chung, Yi-Hsien Hsieh, Chiao-Wen Lin, Jen-Liang Su, Ming-Hsui Tsai and Chih-Hsin Tang* Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan Department of Medical Research, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Changhua Christian Hospital...

Hsin-Hua Chen, Yi-Ming Chen, Tzeng-Ji Chen, Joung-Liang Lan, Ching-Heng Lin, Der-Yuan Chen I Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan. II School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan. III Department of Family Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan. IV School of...

1Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan 2Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan 3Institute of Integrative Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan 4Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdo, China 5Functional Neurosurgery Division, Neu...

1Faculty of Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei 112, Taiwan, 2Department of Neurosurgery, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung 407, Taiwan, 3Institute of Biomedical Sciences, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 402, Taiwan, 4Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei 112, Taiwan, 5Department and In...

Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan* Division of Nephrology, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan** Department of Biotechnology, Hung Kuang University***, Department of Life Science, Tunghai University**** Received: July, 2004 Revised: April, 2005 Accepted: June, 2005 Address reprint requests to Dr. Ku...

1 Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Hospital, Department of Health, Executive Yuan, Taiwan 2 Department of Healthcare Administration, Central Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taichung, Taiwan 3 Management Office for Health Data, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan 4 Department of Public Health, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan 5 Department of Intern...

Yi-Fang Yang , Chen-Yu Chou, Tsai-Chung Li, Ya-Min Jan, Nou-Ying Tang, Ching-Liang Hsieh Graduate Institute of Integrated Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan Department of Chinese Medicine, Chi Mei Medical Center LiouYing Campus, Tainan, Taiwan Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Chi Mei Medical Center LiouYing Campus, Tainan, Taiwan Graduate Institute of Biostatistics, Chin...