Dr. Lingkun Kong, MD, PhD

Expert Publications

• Endoscopic stenting for common bile duct stenoses in chronic pancreatitis: results and impact on long-term outcome.
• Self-expandable metal mesh stents for common bile duct stenosis in chronic pancreatitis: retrospective evaluation of long-term follow-up and clinical outcome pilot study.
• Generalized linear latent variable models for repeated measures of spatially correlated multivariate data.
• [Comparison of 3 types of covered self-expanding metal stents for the palliation of malignant dysphagia: results from the prospective Ludwigshafen Esophageal Cancer Register].
• Long-term outcome of percutaneous transhepatic drainage for benign bile duct stenoses.
• A phase I/II multicentric trial of gemcitabine and epirubicin in patients with advanced pancreatic carcinoma.
• Long-Segment early squamous cell carcinoma of the proximal esophagus: curative treatment and long-term follow-up after 5-aminolevulinic acid (5-ALA)-photodynamic therapy.
• [Space-occupying lesions in the liver: incidence of adenocarcinoma metastases of unknown primary site].
• Prospective nonrandomized comparison of two modes of argon beamer (APC) tumor desobstruction: effectiveness of the new pulsed APC versus forced APC.
• Pain sensation and neuromuscular stimulation during argon plasma coagulation in gastrointestinal endoscopy.
• Fragmentation of bile duct stones: a prospective systematic in vitro evaluation of argon plasma coagulation, cryotechnology, and water-jet technology.
• Endoscopic resection of "giant" colorectal lesions: long-term outcome and safety.
• Effectivity of current sterility methods for transgastric NOTES procedures: results of a randomized porcine study.
• Effectiveness and Safety of PRECISE APC for the treatment of bleeding gastrointestinal angiodysplasia--a retrospective evaluation.
• Diagnostic accuracy of pre-treatment biopsy for grading soft tissue sarcomas in dogs.

Media Releases

Get to know Pediatric Ophthalmologist Dr. Lingkun Kong, who serves patients in Lubbock, Texas.

Dr. Kong joined Texas Tech Physicians of Lubbock in 2017 as a comprehensive pediatric ophthalmologist and adult strabismus specialist. She treats children with eye diseases and sees patients with strabismus in both children and adults.

Texas Tech Physicians is the medical practice of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine. From routine eye exams for adults and children to the treatment of eye disease, Texas Tech Physicians of Lubbock offer a full range of eye care services and specialties. 

Professionally, Dr. Kong also serves as an Associate Professor and Director of the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Lubbock, Texas.

On the subject of her academic career, she holds a medical degree from Harbin Medical University in China, and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree from The University of Queensland in Australia. She completed a fellowship in ocular pathology at Methodist Hospital in Houston, followed by a fellowship in pediatric ophthalmology at UT Southwestern School of Medicine in Dallas.

With over three decades of experience in her field, Dr. Kong’s main research interests are gene regulation of retinal development and retinopathy of prematurity (ROP).

Ophthalmology is a branch of medicine and surgery, which deals with the diagnosis and treatment of eye disorders. Pediatric ophthalmology is a subspecialty of ophthalmology concerned with eye diseases, visual development, and vision care in children. Pediatric ophthalmologists are medical and surgical doctors (Eye MDs) who specialize in the eye problems of children.

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