| Initiation of inappropriate antimicrobial therapy results in a fivefold reduction of survival in human septic shock | Chest | 2009 | 1.7K |
| Association of colonoscopy and death from colorectal cancer | Annals of Internal Medicine | 2009 | 904 |
| The Oxford classification of IgA nephropathy: rationale, clinicopathological correlations, and classification | Kidney International | 2009 | 788 |
| Glioma stem cell lines expanded in adherent culture have tumor-specific phenotypes and are suitable for chemical and genetic screens | Cell Stem Cell | 2009 | 719 |
| Predictors of postoperative pain and analgesic consumption: a qualitative systematic review | Anesthesiology | 2009 | 623 |
| SARS-coronavirus modulation of myocardial ACE2 expression and inflammation in patients with SARS | European Journal of Clinical Investigation | 2009 | 576 |
| Dose escalation methods in phase I cancer clinical trials | Journal of the National Cancer Institute | 2009 | 528 |
| Two systems of resting state connectivity between the insula and cingulate cortex | Human Brain Mapping | 2009 | 510 |
| Acute kidney injury after cardiac surgery: focus on modifiable risk factors | Circulation | 2009 | 503 |
| Relation of disease pathogenesis and risk factors to heart failure with preserved or reduced ejection fraction: insights from the framingham heart study of the national heart, lung, and blood institute | Circulation | 2009 | 475 |
| Recurrence and progression of disease in non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer: from epidemiology to treatment strategy | European Urology | 2009 | 466 |
| A genome-wide association study of lung cancer identifies a region of chromosome 5p15 associated with risk for adenocarcinoma | American Journal of Human Genetics | 2009 | 442 |
| Increased striatal dopamine release in Parkinsonian patients with pathological gambling: a [11C] raclopride PET study | Brain | 2009 | 432 |
| Monoclonal antibody-mediated targeting of CD123, IL-3 receptor alpha chain, eliminates human acute myeloid leukemic stem cells | Cell Stem Cell | 2009 | 413 |
| Consensus criteria for the diagnosis of frontotemporal cognitive and behavioural syndromes in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis | Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Other Motor Neuron Disorders | 2009 | 391 |
| Lipocalin-2 resistance confers an advantage to Salmonella enterica serotype Typhimurium for growth and survival in the inflamed intestine | Cell Host and Microbe | 2009 | 378 |
| Compulsive overeating as an addiction disorder. A review of theory and evidence | Appetite | 2009 | 357 |
| Phase I study of individualized stereotactic body radiotherapy of liver metastases | Journal of Clinical Oncology | 2009 | 352 |
| Multiple recurrent genetic events converge on control of histone lysine methylation in medulloblastoma | Nature Genetics | 2009 | 337 |
| Intracranial arterial wall imaging using high-resolution 3-tesla contrast-enhanced MRI | Neurology | 2009 | 308 |
| Mitochondrial cell death effectors | Current Opinion in Cell Biology | 2009 | 303 |
| Risk associated with preoperative anemia in noncardiac surgery: a single-center cohort study | Anesthesiology | 2009 | 287 |
| A neurocognitive model of attention to pain: behavioral and neuroimaging evidence | Pain | 2009 | 282 |
| Prostate cancer detection with multi-parametric MRI: logistic regression analysis of quantitative T2, diffusion-weighted imaging, and dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI | Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging | 2009 | 278 |
| Meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials comparing open and laparoscopic ventral and incisional hernia repair with mesh | British Journal of Surgery | 2009 | 267 |
