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General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Issue 9/2012

Content (21 Articles)

Current Topics Review Article

Early central airways lung cancer

Chiaki Endo, Akira Sakurada, Takashi Kondo

Original Article

Twelve years of experience with the ATS mechanical heart valve prostheses

Shinichiro Taniguchi, Koji Hashizume, Tsuneo Ariyoshi, Yoichi Hisata, Kazuyoshi Tanigawa, Takashi Miura, Tomohiro Odate, Seiji Matsukuma, Shun Nakaji, Kiyoyuki Eishi

Case Report

Mitral valve plasty in an adult patient without a right superior vena cava

Sayaka Kubota, Kiyoharu Nakano, Kojiro Kodera, Ryota Asano, Go Kataoka, Wataru Tatsuishi

Case Report

Emergent combined repairs for aortic injury and bowel perforation after blunt trauma

Katsuhiko Matsuyama, Tomohiro Nakayama, Hiroaki Hagiwara

Case Report

One-stage repair with separated cardiopulmonary bypass for coarctation of the aorta with left aortic arch and right thoracic descending aorta

Masatoshi Shimada, Takaya Hoashi, Koji Kagisaki, Tatsuya Oda, Isao Shiraishi, Kenichi Kurosaki, Masataka Kitano, Hajime Ichikawa

Case Report

Stanford type A aortic dissection with intimal intussusception

Tetsuya Niino, Satoshi Unosawa, Kazuma Shimura

Case Report

Successful surgical management of coronary perforation requiring pulmonary artery separation

Noriyuki Takashima, Tomoaki Suzuki, Soh Hosoba, Takeshi Kinoshita, Hiromitsu Nota, Keiji Matsubayashi, Tohru Asai

Case Report

Resection of the entire first rib for fibrous dysplasia using a combined posterior-transmanubrial approach

Masashi Furukawa, Junichi Soh, Shinichi Toyooka, Toshifumi Ozaki, Shinichiro Miyoshi

Case Report

Spontaneous hemo-pneumothorax in a patient with Ehlers–Danlos syndrome

Rayees Ahmad Dar, Sabiya Hamid Wani, Majid Mushtaque, Reyaz Ahmad Kasana

Open Access Case Report

Anterior chest wall reconstruction with titanium plate sandwiched between two polypropylene sheets

Keitaro Matsumoto, Isao Sano, Akihiro Nakamura, Shigeyuki Morino, Naoya Yamasaki, Tomoshi Tsuchiya, Takuro Miyazaki, Takeshi Nagayasu

Case Report

Pseudotumoral hydatid cyst of chest wall

Ihsan Alloubi, Tijani Chadmi, Abdelkader Ezerrouki

Case Report

Bilateral dissemination of malignant pleural mesothelioma via iatrogenic buffalo chest: a rare route of disease progression

Kohei Ikezoe, Eisaku Tanaka, Kiminobu Tanizawa, Seishu Hashimoto, Toru Shindo, Satoshi Noma, Yoichiro Kobashi, Yoshio Taguchi

Case Report

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy associated with pulmonary resections after induction chemoradiotherapy for non-small cell lung cancer

Shinichi Toyooka, Satoshi Akagi, Masashi Furukawa, Kazufumi Nakamura, Junichi Soh, Masaomi Yamane, Takahiro Oto, Shinichiro Miyoshi

Case Report

Non-circumferential tracheal resection with muscle flap reconstruction for adenoid cystic carcinoma

Itaru Ishida, Hiroyuki Oura, Hiromichi Niikawa, Masashi Handa

Case Report

Pulmonary botryomycosis on a lung cavity: a rare pulmonary infection mimicking cancer

Maxime Heyndrickx, Françoise Galateau-Salle, Isabelle Herry, Philippe Icard

Case Report

Primary intrapulmonary thymoma associated with myasthenia gravis

Meral Günaldi, I. Oguz Kara, Berna Bozkurt Duman, Derya Gumurdulu

Case Report

Re-expansion pulmonary edema in a patient with total pneumothorax: a hazardous outcome

Timothy Sakellaridis, Ioannis Panagiotou, Athanassios Arsenoglou, Konstantinos Kaselouris, Anastasios Piyis

Case Report

Ectopic bone formation in a subsegmental bronchus

Takuma Tsukioka, Rhoji Yamamoto, Makoto Takahama, Ryu Nakajima, Hirohito Tada

How to Do It

An innovative exclusion technique for ductus arteriosus with a novel stent graft

Takeshi Soeda, Yoshihiko Yokoi, Koichi Yuri, Yuuhei Saito, Shuji Setozaki, Hisao Harada

Letter to the editor

Use of Venturi effect for effective and uniform talc pleurodesis

Mohammed W. Khalil, Mahmoud Loubani