Dr. William Hon-wai Yong MD
Pathologist | Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology
10833 Le Conte Ave Chs B-186 Los Angeles CA, 90095About
Dr. William Yong is a pathologist practicing in Los Angeles, CA. Dr. Yong is a doctor who specializes in the study of bodily fluids and tissues. As a pathologist, Dr. Yong can help your primary care doctor make a diagnosis about your medical condition. Dr. Yong may perform a tissue biopsy to determine if a patient has cancer, practice genetic testing, and complete a number of laboratory examinations. Pathologists can also perform autopsies which can determine a persons cause of death and gain information about genetic progression of a disease.
Education and Training
University of California 1991
Board Certification
PathologyAmerican Board of PathologyABP- Neuropathology
PathologyAmerican Board of PathologyABP- 1999
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Glioblastoma induction after radiosurgery for meningioma.
- Vaccination of malignant glioma patients with peptide-pulsed dendritic cells elicits systemic cytotoxicity and intracranial T-cell infiltration.
- Functional PPAR-gamma receptor is a novel therapeutic target for ACTH-secreting pituitary adenomas.
- A syndrome of spontaneous cerebral and cervical artery dissections with angiolipomatosis. Report of two cases.
- June 2003: 33-year-old male with a frontal lobe mass.
- Distinction of brain tissue, low grade and high grade glioma with time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy.
- Schwannomin inhibits tumorigenesis through direct interaction with the eukaryotic initiation factor subunit c (eIF3c).
- Optimal conditions for synthesizing complementary DNA in the HIV-1 endogenous reverse transcriptase reaction.
- Congenital brain tumors: case series and review of the literature.
- Intravascular polymer material after coil embolization of a giant cerebral
- Discordant assessment of lupus activity between patients and their physicians: the Singapore experience.
- Treatment of atypical central neurocytoma in a child with high dose chemotherapy and autologous stem cell rescue.
- A microfluidic platform for systems pathology: multiparameter single-cell signaling measurements of clinical brain tumor specimens.
- Rosette-forming glioneuronal tumor: a pineal region case with IDH1 and IDH2 mutation analyses and literature review of 43 cases.
- Tolerance testing of passive radio frequency identification tags for solvent, temperature, and pressure conditions encountered in an anatomic pathology or biorepository setting.
Fellowships
- Neuropathology, UCLA School of Medicine 1995
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