EDITORIAL
Thoracoscopic Surgery for Esophageal Cancer
Hiroyuki Kuwano, et al.
REVIEW

Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery for Early Stage Lung Cancer – Can Short-Term Immunological Advantages Improve Long-Term Survival?
Calvin S. H. Ng, et al.
ORIGINAL ARTICLE

The Efficacy of Epidural Analgesia after Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery: A Randomized Control Study
Masakazu Yoshioka, et al.

A Comparison of the Acute Hemodynamic Effects of Inhaled Nitroglycerin and Iloprost in Patients with Pulmonary Hypertension Undergoing Mitral Valve Surgery
Nurgul Yurtseven, et al.

Assessment of On-Pump Beating Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery Performed after Introduction of Off-Pump Approach
Takeshiro Fujii, et al.

Aortic Root Necrosis after Surgical Treatment Using Gelatin-Resorcinol-Formaldehyde (GRF) Glue in Patients with Acute Type A Aortic Dissection
Shinichi Suzuki, et al.

Pre-Existing Histopathological Changes in the Cephalic Vein of Renal Failure Patients before Arterio-Venous Fistula (AVF) Construction
Mahmoud A. Wali, et al.
CASE REPORT

A Two-Stage Approach to a Patient with Hydatid Cysts inside the Right Pulmonary Artery and Multiple Right Lung Involvement
Cengiz Koksal, et al.

Sclerosing Hemangioma of the Lung: A Benign Tumour with Potential for Malignancy?
Wolfgang Jungraithmayr, et al.

Extension of Liver Tissue into the Thorax Following a Right Extrapleural Pneumonectomy for Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma
Ichiro Yoshino, et al.

Outcome of Surgical Intervention for Isolated Intrathoracic Lymph Node Metastasis from Infradiaphragmatic Malignancy: Report of Two Cases
Takeshi Kawaguchi, et al.

Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum in 3rd Trimester of Pregnancy
M. Erkan Balkan, et al.

Cardiac Stab Injury by a Bodkin
Mamoru Munakata, et al.

Unilateral Absence of a Pulmonary Artery in Absent Pulmonary Valve Syndrome: A Case Report and Review of Literature
Fuad Abbag

Constrictive Pericarditis with Atrial Septal Defect
Yoshihisa Tanoue, et al.

Monoparesis after Graft Replacement of Non-Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
Hitoshi Matsuda, et al.