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General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Issue 3/2011

Content (18 Articles)

Current Topics Review

Video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy for lung cancer: the point at issue

Yoshinori Yamashita, Hiroaki Harada, Keizo Misumi

Original Article

Functional restoration of endothelial cells of the cryopreserved heart valve

Eiki Fujimoto, Masanori Yoshizumi, Tamotsu Kanbara, Hirotsugu Kurobe, Tatsuo Motoki, Mikio Sugano, Taisuke Nakayama, Takashi Kitaichi, Tetsuya Kitagawa

Case Report

Ascending aortic aneurysm associated with a quadricuspid aortic valve

Keiichiro Kasama, Hitoshi Ogino, Hitoshi Matsuda, Kenji Minatoya, Hiroaki Sasaki, Hiroshi Tanaka, Hatsue Ishibashi-Ueda, Junjiro Kobayashi

Case Report

Surgical removal of an intravascular ultrasonography catheter captured in a stent after percutaneous coronary intervention

Hiroya Minami, Tatsuro Asada, Kunio Gan, Akitoshi Yamada, Masanobu Sato

Case Report

Primary cardiac osteosarcoma with imaging that revealed no calcification

Wataru Hashimoto, Koji Hashizume, Tsuneo Ariyoshi, Shinichiro Taniguchi, Takashi Miura, Naoe Kinoshita, Kiyoyuki Eishi

Case Report

Retrograde coronary sinus cardioplegia cannula placement under short-time circulatory arrest in surgery for a ruptured type A dissection with a previous coronary artery bypass

Tomonobu Abe, Toshimichi Nonaka, Takafumi Terada, Rei Noda, Yuki Hatano, Noriyuki Kato, Miwako Kado, Hajime Sakurai

Case Report

Successful early resection of cardiac papillary fibroelastomas

Hirotsugu Kurobe, Tamotsu Kanbara, Homare Yoshida, Tatsuo Motoki, Mikio Sugano, Taisuke Nakayama, Takashi Kitaichi, Tetsuya Kitagawa

Case Report

Port-access mitral valve replacement after surgical correction for Bland-White-Garland syndrome

Kosaku Nishigawa, Masahiko Kuinose, Yoshimasa Tsushima, Toshinori Totsugawa, Hidenori Yoshitaka, Genta Chikazawa

Case Report

Dedifferentiated chondrosarcoma of the chest wall: reconstruction with polypropylene mesh using a transverse rectus abdominis myocutaneous flap

Masafumi Noda, Chiaki Endo, Tomoko Hosaka, Tetsu Sado, Akira Sakurada, Yasushi Hoshikawa, Yoshinori Okada, Takashi Kondo

Case Report

Spontaneous left side pneumothorax and myocardial infarction: rare but potentially lethal coexistence that can frustrate clinicians

Dimos Karangelis, Georgios Tagarakis, Georgios Skoumis, Dimitrios Papadopoulos, Georgia Kalafati, Georgios Stylianakis, Nikolaos Tsilimingas

Case Report

Late-onset chylothorax after pulmonary resection for lung cancer

Maiko Tabu, Kazuhiro Imai, Jun-ichi Ogawa, Yoshihiro Minamiya, Satoru Yoshida, Kyo Hirayama, Takeyuki Sawano, Ikuo Matsuzaki

Case Report

Extrapulmonary hamartoma

Tetsuya Endo, Shunsuke Endo, Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Kenji Tetsuka, Shinichi Yamamoto, Shinichi Otani, Yoshihiko Kanai, Yasuhiro Tezuka

Case Report

Sister Mary Joseph’s nodule that originated from lung adenocarcinoma

Tomohiro Haruki, Hiroshige Nakamura, Yasuaki Kubouchi, Yuji Taniguchi, Ken Miwa, Yoshin Adachi, Shinji Fujioka, Hisao Ito

Case Report

Bronchial and cardiac ruptures due to blunt trauma

Takahiko Misao, Takeshi Yoshikawa, Motoi Aoe, Norichika Iga, Masashi Furukawa, Takanori Suezawa, Mamoru Tago

Case Report

Esophageal ruptures: triage using the systemic inflammatory response syndrome score

Kouichi Furugaki, Junichi Yoshida, Koji Hokazono, Takuya Emoto, Jo Nakashima, Mayumi Ohyama, Toshiyuki Ishimitsu, Masahiro Shinohara, Kenichi Matsuo

Case Report

Unusual metastasis to all the digits of both hands in a patient previously operated on for esophageal carcinoma

Abdul Majeed Dar, Nadeem ul Nazeer Kawoosa, Mukand Lal Sharma, Mohammad Akbar Bhat