Alexander Yu

Department of BioMolecular Sciences, National Center for Natural Products Research, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Mississippi Cancer Center & Research Institute, Jackson, MS 39216. Electronic address:

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April 2020

Single-Surgeon Direct Comparison of O-arm Neuronavigation versus Mazor X Robotic-Guided Posterior Spinal Instrumentation.

Authors:

Gordon Mao Michael J Gigliotti Daniel Myers Alexander Yu Donald Whiting

World Neurosurg 2020 05 31;137:e278-e285. Epub 2020 Jan 31.

Department of Neurosurgery, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

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May 2020

Genotypic and phenotypic variability of 22q11.2 microduplications: An institutional experience.

Authors:

Alexander Yu Donald Turbiville Fangling Xu Joseph W Ray Allison D Britt Pamela J Lupo Sunil K Jain Karen E Shattuck Sally S Robinson Jianli Dong

Am J Med Genet A 2019 11 3;179(11):2178-2189. Epub 2019 Sep 3.

Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas.

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November 2019

δ-Aminolevulinate induces fetal hemoglobin expression by enhancing cellular heme biosynthesis.

Authors:

Li Liu Xingguo Zhu Alexander Yu Christina M Ward Betty S Pace

Exp Biol Med (Maywood) 2019 10 31;244(14):1220-1232. Epub 2019 Aug 31.

Department of Pediatrics, Augusta University, Augusta, GA 30912, USA.

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October 2019

Rare case of cystic hygroma in the epidural space resulting in multilevel spinal cord compression.

Authors:

Christopher Payne Michael J Gigliotti Alejandro Castellvi Alexander Yu

BMJ Case Rep 2019 Aug 28;12(8). Epub 2019 Aug 28.

Allegheny General Hospital - Western Pennsylvania Hospital Medical Education Consortium, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

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August 2019

Calcification in Human Intracranial Aneurysms Is Highly Prevalent and Displays Both Atherosclerotic and Nonatherosclerotic Types.

Authors:

Piyusha S Gade Riikka Tulamo Kee-Won Lee Fernando Mut Eliisa Ollikainen Chih-Yuan Chuang Bong Jae Chung Mika Niemelä Behnam Rezai Jahromi Khaled Aziz Alexander Yu Fady T Charbel Sepideh Amin-Hanjani Juhana Frösen Juan R Cebral Anne M Robertson

Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 2019 10 29;39(10):2157-2167. Epub 2019 Aug 29.

From the Department of Bioengineering (P.S.G., K.L., A.M.R.), University of Pittsburgh, PA.

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October 2019

Evaluating PCR-Based Detection of Typhi and Paratyphi A in the Environment as an Enteric Fever Surveillance Tool.

Authors:

Senjuti Saha Arif M Tanmoy Jason R Andrews Mohammad S I Sajib Alexander T Yu Stephen Baker Stephen P Luby Samir K Saha

Am J Trop Med Hyg 2019 01;100(1):43-46

Child Health Research Foundation, Department of Microbiology, Dhaka Shishu Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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January 2019

Case-Fatality Ratio of Blood Culture-Confirmed Typhoid Fever in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Authors:

Alexander T Yu Nuhu Amin Muhammad Waliur Rahman Emily S Gurley Kazi Mizanur Rahman Stephen P Luby

J Infect Dis 2018 11;218(suppl_4):S222-S226

Stanford University, California.

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November 2018

Integrating Facility-Based Surveillance With Healthcare Utilization Surveys to Estimate Enteric Fever Incidence: Methods and Challenges.

Authors:

Jason R Andrews Caitlin Barkume Alexander T Yu Samir K Saha Farah N Qamar Denise Garrett Stephen P Luby

J Infect Dis 2018 11;218(suppl_4):S268-S276

Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University, California.

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November 2018

Persistent bacteraemia caused by in the gall bladder.

Authors:

Alexander Tin Han Yu Tony Cun Esther Benamu Cybele Renault

BMJ Case Rep 2017 Nov 8;2017. Epub 2017 Nov 8.

Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.

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November 2017

Countdown tracks progress on health effects of climate change.

Authors:

Alexander Tin-Han Yu Mona Sarfaty

BMJ 2017 11 9;359:j5159. Epub 2017 Nov 9.

Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA.

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November 2017

Scedosporium apiospermum infection of the urinary system with a review of treatment options and cases in the literature.

Authors:

Esther Benamu Alexander Tin-Han Yu Lijia Xie Sebastian Fernandez-Pol Anne Y Liu Dora Y Ho

Transpl Infect Dis 2018 Feb 21;20(1). Epub 2017 Dec 21.

Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.

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February 2018

Multimodal molecular analysis of astroblastoma enables reclassification of most cases into more specific molecular entities.

Authors:

Matthew D Wood Tarik Tihan Arie Perry Geeta Chacko Clinton Turner Cunfeng Pu Christopher Payne Alexander Yu Serguei I Bannykh David A Solomon

Brain Pathol 2018 03 27;28(2):192-202. Epub 2017 Oct 27.

Department of Pathology, Division of Neuropathology, University of California, San Francisco, CA.

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March 2018

Generative Anatomy Modeling Language (GAML).

Authors:

Doga Demirel Alexander Yu Seth Baer-Cooper Tansel Halic Coskun Bayrak

Int J Med Robot 2017 Dec 5;13(4). Epub 2017 Mar 5.

Department of Computer Science, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA.

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December 2017

A Pediatric Tumor Found Frequently in the Adult Population: A Case of Anaplastic Astroblastoma in an Elderly Patient and Review of the Literature.

Authors:

Christopher Payne Ali Batouli Kristen Stabingas Dunbar Alcindor Khaled Abdel Aziz Cunfeng Pu Elizabeth Tyler-Kabara Robert Williams Alexander Yu

Case Rep Neurol Med 2017 23;2017:1607915. Epub 2017 Jan 23.

Department of Neurosurgery, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

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January 2017

Drilling of the marginal tubercle to enhance exposure via mini pterional approach: An anatomical study and clinical series of 25 sphenoid wing meningiomas.

Authors:

Nouman Aldahak Mohamed El Tantowy Derrick Dupre Alexander Yu Jeffrey T Keller Sebastien Froelich Khaled M Aziz

Surg Neurol Int 2016 12;7(Suppl 40):S989-S994. Epub 2016 Dec 12.

Department of Neurosurgery, Allegheny General Hospital, Drexel University College of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

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December 2016

A hierarchical task analysis of shoulder arthroscopy for a virtual arthroscopic tear diagnosis and evaluation platform (VATDEP).

Authors:

Doga Demirel Alexander Yu Seth Cooper-Baer Aditya Dendukuri Tansel Halic Sinan Kockara Nizamettin Kockara Shahryar Ahmadi

Int J Med Robot 2017 Sep 27;13(3). Epub 2016 Dec 27.

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.

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September 2017

Virtual Intraoperative Cholangiogram Using WebCL.

Authors:

Alexander Yu Doga Demirel Tansel Halic Sinan Kockara

Stud Health Technol Inform 2016 ;220:459-64

Department of Computer Science, University of Central Arkansas.

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January 2017

Virtual Airway Skills Trainer (VAST) Simulator.

Authors:

Doga Demirel Alexander Yu Tansel Halic Ganesh Sankaranarayanan Adam Ryason David Spindler Kathryn L Butler Caroline Cao Emil Petrusa Marcos Molina Dan Jones Suvranu De Marc Demoya Stephanie Jones

Stud Health Technol Inform 2016 ;220:91-7

Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard School of Medicine.

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January 2017

Omohyoid Muscle Syndrome in a Mixed Martial Arts Athlete: A Case Report.

Authors:

Alexander D Lee Alexander Yu Shayne B Young Patrick J Battaglia C John Ho

Sports Health 2015 Sep-Oct;7(5):458-62. Epub 2014 Apr 23.

Athlete's Care Sports Medicine Centres, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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July 2016

Coamplification of Myc/Pvt1 and homozygous deletion of Nlrp1 locus are frequent genetics changes in mouse osteosarcoma.

Authors:

Pulivarthi H Rao Shuying Zhao Yi-Jue Zhao Alexander Yu Nino Rainusso Matteo Trucco Wendy Allen-Rhoades Laura Satterfield Daniel Fuja Vishnupriya J Borra Tsz-Kwong Man Lawrence A Donehower Jason T Yustein

Genes Chromosomes Cancer 2015 Dec 10;54(12):796-808. Epub 2015 Sep 10.

Texas Children's Cancer and Hematology Centers, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 77030.

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December 2015

Genome-wide analysis of DNA copy number alterations and loss of heterozygosity in intracranial germ cell tumors.

Authors:

Keita Terashima Alexander Yu Wing-Yuk T Chow Wei-chun J Hsu Peikai Chen Stephen Wong Yeung Sam Hung Tomonari Suzuki Ryo Nishikawa Masao Matsutani Hideo Nakamura Ho-Keung Ng Jeffrey C Allen Kenneth D Aldape Jack M Su Adekunle M Adesina Hon-chiu E Leung Tsz-Kwong Man Ching C Lau

Pediatr Blood Cancer 2014 Apr 19;61(4):593-600. Epub 2013 Nov 19.

Department of Pediatrics, Texas Children's Cancer and Hematology Centers, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.

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April 2014

Implications of tumor location on subtypes of medulloblastoma.

Authors:

Wan-Yee Teo Jianhe Shen Jack Meng Fen Su Alexander Yu Jian Wang Wing-Yuk Chow Xiaonan Li Jeremy Jones Robert Dauser William Whitehead Adekunle M Adesina Murali Chintagumpala Tsz-Kwong Man Ching C Lau

Pediatr Blood Cancer 2013 Sep 19;60(9):1408-10. Epub 2013 Mar 19.

Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology-Oncology, Texas Children's Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.

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September 2013

Biomechanics of Posterior Dynamic Fusion Systems in the Lumbar Spine: Implications for Stabilization With Improved Arthrodesis.

Authors:

Alexander K Yu Catherine M Siegfried Brandon Chew Joseph Hobbs Abraham Sabersky Diana J Jho Daniel J Cook Jonathan Brad Bellotte Donald M Whiting Boyle C Cheng

Clin Spine Surg 2016 08;29(7):E325-30

Department of Neurosurgery, Drexel University, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA.

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August 2016

Superior semicircular canal dehiscence in East Asian women with osteoporosis.

Authors:

Alexander Yu Douglas L Teich Gul Moonis Eric T Wong

BMC Ear Nose Throat Disord 2012 Jul 25;12. Epub 2012 Jul 25.

South Cove Community Health Center, Boston, MA, USA.

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July 2012

A systems biology approach reveals common metastatic pathways in osteosarcoma.

Authors:

Ricardo J Flores Yiting Li Alexander Yu Jianhe Shen Pulivarthi H Rao Serrine S Lau Marina Vannucci Ching C Lau Tsz-Kwong Man

BMC Syst Biol 2012 May 28;6:50. Epub 2012 May 28.

Texas Children's Cancer Center, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, USA.

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May 2012

Identification and gene expression profiling of tumor-initiating cells isolated from human osteosarcoma cell lines in an orthotopic mouse model.

Authors:

Nino Rainusso Tsz-Kwong Man Ching C Lau John Hicks Jianhe J Shen Alexander Yu Lisa L Wang Jeffrey M Rosen

Cancer Biol Ther 2011 Aug 15;12(4):278-87. Epub 2011 Aug 15.

Texas Children's Cancer Center and Hematology Service, Houston, USA.

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August 2011

A comparison of two methods for retrieving ICD-9-CM data: the effect of using an ontology-based method for handling terminology changes.

Authors:

Alexander C Yu James J Cimino

J Biomed Inform 2011 Apr 22;44(2):289-98. Epub 2011 Jan 22.

Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.

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April 2011

Elevated expression of CXC chemokines in pediatric osteosarcoma patients.

Authors:

Yiting Li Ricardo Flores Alexander Yu M Fatih Okcu Jeffrey Murray Murali Chintagumpala John Hicks Ching C Lau Tsz-Kwong Man

Cancer 2011 Jan 30;117(1):207-17. Epub 2010 Aug 30.

Texas Children's Cancer Center, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas; Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.

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January 2011

Prevalence of tethered spinal cord in infants with VACTERL.

Authors:

Brent R O'Neill Alexander K Yu Elizabeth C Tyler-Kabara

J Neurosurg Pediatr 2010 Aug;6(2):177-82

Department of Neurosurgery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.

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August 2010

Cell-specific gene expression in Langerhans cell histiocytosis lesions reveals a distinct profile compared with epidermal Langerhans cells.

Authors:

Carl E Allen Liunan Li Tricia L Peters Hon-Chiu Eastwood Leung Alexander Yu Tsz-Kwong Man Sivashankarappa Gurusiddappa Michelle T Phillips M John Hicks Amos Gaikwad Miriam Merad Kenneth L McClain

J Immunol 2010 Apr 10;184(8):4557-67. Epub 2010 Mar 10.

Department of Pediatrics, Texas Children's Cancer Center and Hematology Service, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA.

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April 2010

A comparison of two methods for retrieving ICD-9-CM data: The effect of using an ontology-based method for handling terminology changes.

Authors:

Alexander C Yu James J Cimino

AMIA Annu Symp Proc 2007 Oct 11:841-5. Epub 2007 Oct 11.

Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA .

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October 2007

Pharmacokinetics of irinotecan and its metabolites in pediatric cancer patients: a report from the children's oncology group.

Authors:

Patrick A Thompson Manish Gupta Gary L Rosner Alexander Yu Jeffrey Barrett Lisa Bomgaars Mark L Bernstein Susan M Blaney John Mondick

Cancer Chemother Pharmacol 2008 Nov 16;62(6):1027-37. Epub 2008 Feb 16.

Texas Children's Cancer Center and Hematology Service, Texas Children's Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine, 6621 Fannin St. 1510.00, Houston, TX 77030-2399, USA.

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November 2008