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General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Issue 5/2012

Content (13 Articles)

Guest Review Article

Video-assisted thoracic surgery for lung cancer

Sanghoon Jheon, Hee Chul Yang, Sukki Cho

Original Article

Short-term and long-term outcomes of postinfarction ventricular septal perforation

Kenichiro Noguchi, Atsushi Yamaguchi, Kazuhiro Naito, Kouichi Yuri, Hideo Adachi

Original Article

Insights of stroke in aortic arch surgery: identification of significant risk factors and surgical implication

Tatsuji Okada, Mitsuomi Shimamoto, Fumio Yamazaki, Masanao Nakai, Yujiro Miura, Tatsuya Itonaga, Daisuke Takahashi, Ryota Nomura, Noriyuki Abe, Yasuhiko Terai

Original Article

Gastric injury caused by low-dose aspirin therapy in consecutive Japanese patients: a prospective study

Shoji Fukuda, Shigeru Hosaka, Naomi Ozawa, Sam Akita, Toshitaka Kashima, Sosuke Kimura, Junichi Akiyama, Tetsuya Mizoue

Original Article

Not palpable? Role of radio-guided video-assisted thoracic surgery for nonpalpable solitary pulmonary nodules

Luca Bertolaccini, Alberto Terzi, Elvira Spada, Franco Acchiardi, Donatella Ghirardo

Original Article

Inhalation of corticosteroid and β-agonist for persistent cough following pulmonary resection

Shigeki Sawada, Hiroshi Suehisa, Motohiro Yamashita

Original Article

Induction chemotherapy, extrapleural pneumonectomy, and adjuvant radiotherapy for malignant pleural mesothelioma: experience of Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospitals

Andrea Bille, Elizabeth Belcher, Hilgard Raubenheimer, David Landau, Paul Cane, James Spicer, Loïc Lang-Lazdunski

Case Report

Advanced effusive-constrictive pericarditis rescued by the aggressive waffl e procedure

Kazuhiro Yamazaki, Akira Marui, Takahiro Nakahara, Yoshiaki Saji, Takeshi Nishina, Tadashi Ikeda, Satoshi Shizuta, Ryuzo Sakata

Case Report

Pseudoaneurysm following percutaneous balloon angioplasty for aortic arch recoarctation after the Norwood procedure

Katsuhiro Yamanaka, Naoki Yoshimura, Tomonori Higuma, Fukiko Ichida

Case Report

Early aortic endograft failure in the presence of periaortic lymphadenopathy with neurofibromatosis (von Recklinghausen’s disease)

Daijiro Hori, Koichi Yuri, Kazunari Nemoto, Atsushi Yamaguchi, Hideo Adachi

Case Report

Single-lung transplantation in a chronic pulmonary emphysema patient with a marginal donor who was ABO blood group nonidentical but compatible

Yoshiyuki Susaki, Masayoshi Inoue, Masato Minami, Yasushi Shintani, Tomoyuki Nakagiri, Noriyoshi Sawabata, Meinoshin Okumura

Case Report

Acute respiratory distress caused by esophageal duplication canceration in an adult

Ji-fu Liu, Guang Liu, Bo Xu, Tomoki Yamatsuji, Yoshio Naomoto