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General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Issue 8/2021

Content (20 Articles)

Can we predict mediastinal lymph nodes metastasis in esophagogastric junction cancer? Results of a systematic review and meta-analysis

Mohamed Maatouk, Yacine Ben Safta, Ghassen Hamdi Kbir, Aymen Mabrouk, Anis Ben Dhaou, Sami Daldoul, Sofien Sayari, Karim Haouet, Mounir Ben Moussa

Open Access Sternotomy Original Article

Early and mid-term outcomes of minimally invasive mitral valve repair via right mini-thoracotomy: 5-year experience with 129 consecutive patients

Taisuke Nakayama, Yoshitsugu Nakamura, Yuto Yasumoto, Daiki Yoshiyama, Miho Kuroda, Shuhei Nishijima, Yujiro Ito, Ryo Tsuruta, Takaki Hori

Bronchoscopy Original Article

The histological diagnosis and molecular testing of lung cancer by surgical biopsy for intrathoracic lesions

Toru Momozane, Kaichi Shigetsu, Yukio Kimura, Hiroki Kishima, Ken Kodama

Computed Tomography Original Article

Classifying the destination of right top pulmonary vein in 31 clinical cases

Naoki Miyamoto, Mitsuteru Yoshida, Mika Takashima, Daisuke Matsumoto, Naoya Kawakita, Mitsuhiro Tsuboi, Hiromitsu Takizawa, Kazuya Kondo, Hisashi Ishikura, Akira Tangoku

Computed Tomography Original Article

Clinical impact and utility of positron emission tomography on occult lymph node metastasis and survival: radical surgery for stage I lung cancer

Haruaki Hino, Takahiro Utsumi, Natsumi Maru, Hiroshi Matsui, Yohei Taniguchi, Tomohito Saito, Tomohiro Murakawa

Lung Cancer Original Article

Trajectory and profile of quality of life in patients undergoing lung resection for lung cancer during hospitalization according to the EQ-5D

Hideo Ichimura, Keisuke Kobayashi, Masahiko Gosho, Kojiro Nakaoka, Takahiro Yanagihara, Sho Ueda, Yusuke Saeki, Kentaro Araki, Tomoyuki Kawamura, Yukio Sato

Metastasis Original Article

Surgical outcomes of pulmonary metastasectomy for head and neck cancer in the current era of advances in chemotherapy and immunotherapy

Takahiro Ochi, Hironobu Wada, Takahiro Nakajima, Kazuhisa Tanaka, Takayoshi Yamamoto, Yuichi Sakairi, Hidemi Suzuki, Syuji Yonekura, Toyoyuki Hanazawa, Ichiro Yoshino

Lung Cancer Original Article

Validation of the Japanese National Clinical Database Risk calculator for lung cancer surgery focused on postoperative morbidity

Yasuto Kondo, Yosuke Matsuura, Yohei Kawaguchi, Junji Ichinose, Masayuki Nakao, Sakae Okumura, Yukitoshi Satoh, Mingyon Mun

Stroke Original Article

Variation in management of post-operative atrial fibrillation (POAF) after thoracic surgery

Heidi Oi-Yee Li, Heather A. Smith, Olivier Brandts-Longtin, Donna E. Maziak, Sebastien Gilbert, Paul Villeneuve, Sudhir Sundaresan, Andrew J. E. Seely

Giant coronary sinus aneurysm misdiagnosed as an extracardiac mediastinal tumor

Soki Hori, Shunsuke Saito, Takashi Kato, Masahiro Seki, Masahiro Tezuka, Yusuke Takei, Hironaga Ogawa, Koji Ogata, Ikuko Shibasaki, Hirotsugu Fukuda

Case Report

Eustachian valve myxoma: a rare cause of Budd–Chiari syndrome

Reuben Lamiaki Kynta, Sanjib Rawat, Bifica Sofia Lyngdoh, Arun Kumar Gunasekaran, Vanlalmalsawmdawngliana Fanai, Manish Kapoor, Haritha Therese Joseph

Heart Surgery Case Report

Penetrating left ventricular injuries management: single General Thoracic Center experience

Alessio Campisi, Angelo Paolo Ciarrocchi, Giorgio Grani, Desideria Argnani, Maurizio Salvi, Franco Stella

Lobectomy with pathological examination in lung cancer patients who recovered from COVID-19

Andrey Nefedov, Makhmud Mortada, Tatyana Novitskaya, Alexey Patsyuk, Andrey Kozak, Piotr Yablonskii

The rare case of a MitraClip device migrating into the left ventricular apex

Gaku Takinami, Yoshifumi Nakajima, Shigeto Tsuji, Daiki Saito, Azuma Tabayashi, Junichi Koizumi, Junichi Tsuboi, Hajime Kin