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General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Issue 5/2009

Content (12 Articles)

Original Article

Risk factors for open heart surgery in hemodialysis patients

Mitsuhiro Yamamura, Masataka Mitsuno, Hiroe Tanaka, Yasuhiko Kobayashi, Masaaki Ryomoto, Hiroyuki Nishi, Shinya Fukui, Noriko Tsujiya, Tetsuya Kajiyama, Yuji Miyamoto

Original Article

Mediastinal lymph node carcinoma of an unknown primary site: clinicopathological examination

Ken Miwa, Shinji Fujioka, Yoshin Adachi, Tomohiro Haruki, Yuji Taniguchi, Hiroshige Nakamura

Original Article

Retrospective investigation of pulmonary resection in patients with high total pulmonary vascular resistance during preoperative unilateral pulmonary artery occlusion

Yoshinori Nagamatsu, Akira Ohkita, Norman Y. Kimura, Goichi Nakayama, Ryozou Hayashida, Hideaki Yamana, Kazuo Shirouzu

Case Report

Infected aortic aneurysm, purulent pericarditis, and pulmonary trunk rupture caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Shunei Saito, Akio Matsuura, Ken Miyahara, Haruki Takemura, Sadanari Sawaki, Hideki Ito

Case Report

Aortoesophageal fistula due to esophageal ulcer

Shinji Takano, Kazuhiro Katsuhara, Kenji Nobuhara, Shigeharu Ueda, Masato Imura, Yoshihisa Hohjo

Case Report

Carinal wedge resection for lipoma combined with bronchoplastic lobectomy for lung cancer

Masatsugu Hamaji, Toru Tanaka, Hiromasa Morikawa, Yoichiro Ueno

Case Report

Complex bronchial ruptures successfully treated with primary reconstruction and limited lung resection

Hassan Jamal-Eddine, Adel K. Ayed, Miodrag Peric, Chezhian Chandrasekaran, Nael Al-Sarraf

Case Report

Stage Ia malignant pleural mesothelioma: clinical course and appropriate diagnostic process

Ryo Maeda, Noritaka Isowa, Hideyuki Onuma, Hiroshi Miura, Hirokazu Touge, Yuji Kawasaki

Case Report

Clear cell carcinoma originating from ectopic thymus

Masaya Okuda, Cheng-long Huang, Reiji Haba, Hiroyasu Yokomise

Case Report

Spontaneous regression of an invasive thymoma

Yojiro Yutaka, Mitsugu Omasa, Kei Shikuma, Masato Okuda, Toshihiko Taki

How to Do It

Catastrophic hemorrhage due to aortic injury during resternotomy: what to do?

Yutaka Imoto, Akira Sese, Masato Sakamoto, Yoshie Ochiai, Toshiro Iwai, Takashi Kajiwara