Medical art
​Tomotaka Kato
　　A Japanese gastrointestinal surgeon with specialization in hepato-biliary and pancreatic surgery, and medical illustrator.
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　　He has been carefully and meticulously drawing daily operative records for HBP surgery, which require an understanding of complicated anatomy and delicate surgical technique.
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　　While drawing the operation scene repeatedly, he came to place importance on expressing complex surgical concepts in a simple and prominent illustration, resulting in many contributions and impacts on presentations and publishing by himself and other surgeons.
Qualifications
Board Certified Surgeon,
Japan Surgical Society (2021)
Japanese Society of Gastroenterological Surgery (2022)
Japanese Society of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery (2023)
Publications
Kato T, Ban D, Tateishi U, Ogura T, et al. Reticular pattern around superior mesenteric artery in computed tomography imaging predicting poor prognosis of pancreatic head cancer. J Hepatobiliary Pancreat Sci (2019).
Kato T, Ono H, Fujii M, et al. Cytoplasmic RRM1 activation as an acute response to gemcitabine treatment is involved in drug resistance of pancreatic cancer cells. PLOS ONE (2021).
Kato, T, Kudo, A, Kinowaki Y, et al. A novel classification of portal venous tumor invasion to predict residual tumor status after surgery in patients with pancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms. J Cancer Res Clin Oncol (2021).
Kato T, Inoue Y, Oba A, Ono Y, et al. Laparoscopic Radical Antegrade Modular Pancreatosplenectomy with Anterocranial Splenic Artery-First Approach for Left-Sided cancer (with Videos). Ann Surg Oncol (2022).
Kato T, Ono Y, Oba A, et al.Comparison of the clinical efficacy of a new prognostic stratification for duodenal adenocarcinoma with that of TNM staging:The importance of T status with regard to the prognosis. Eur J Surg Oncol (2022).
Kato T, Ono Y, Oba A, et al. Treatment Strategy of Pancreas-Sparing Distal Duodenectomy for Distal Duodenal Malignancies with Adjustable Dissection Levels According to Disease Progression (with Video). World J Surg (2023).
Kato T, Watanabe Y, Oshima Y, et al. Long-term outcomes and risk factors of pancreatic insufficiency after pancreatoduodenectomy: A retrospective study. Surgery (2024).
Kato T, Okada K, Oshima Y, et al. Preoperative prognostic stratification and prediction of long-term outcomes after pancreatoduodenectomy for distal cholangiocarcinoma. Eur J Surg Oncol (2024).
Kato T, Watanabe Y, Oshima Y, et al. Preoperative risk-stratified analysis: External versus internal pancreatic stents in pancreatoduodenectomy. Surgery (2024).