Volume 10 Number 1 February, 2004


EDITORIAL
Treatment of Peripheral Early Stage Lung Cancer
Harubumi Kato, et al.

REVIEW
Thoracoscopic Sympathetic Surgery for Hand Sweating
Takeshi Ueyama, et al.

ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Survival and Prognostic Factors in Resected cN2-pN0 Non-small Cell Lung Cancer
Hiroto Niizeki, et al.
Diagnostic and Therapeutic Thoracoscopy for Mediastinal Disease
Akihiko Kitami, et al.
Plasma Carnitine Concentrations in Patients Undergoing Open Heart Surgery
Shintaro Nemoto, et al.
A New Model to Test the Calcification Characteristics of Bioprosthetic Heart Valves
Shigeyuki Ozaki, et al.
Usefulness of One-stage Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting on the Beating Heart and Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair
Keisuke Morimoto, et al.

CASE REPORT
Surgical Treatment of Virulent Descending Necrotizing Mediastinitis
Shinji Hirai, et al.
Infarction Exclusion Technique with Transmural Sutures for Postinfarction Ventricular Septal Rupture
Keisuke Morimoto, et al.
Two Cases of Ventricular Tachycardia with Congenital Left Ventricular Malformation in an Adult
Satoshi Yamashiro, et al.
Repair of the Aortico-left Ventricular Tunnel Originating from the Right Aortic Sinus with Severe Aortic Valve Regurgitation
Masaki Ando, et al.
Inflammatory Aortic Arch Aneurysm with Total Occlusion of Cervical Branches
Kazuhiro Kochi, et al.
Aortic Regurgitation Secondary to Back-and-forth Intimal Flap Movement of Acute Type A Dissection
Hideaki Nohara, et al.
Delayed Chronic Type A Dissection with a Functional Midline Crossing Right Internal Thoracic Artery after CABG: Surgical Approach to an Ascending Aorta without Dissecting the Midline Crossing Internal Thoracic Artery
Takashi Yamauchi, et al.
The Distal Perfusion First Technique for Complicated Stanford Type B Aortic Dissection
Kenji Okada, et al.
Acute Aortic Dissection with New Massive Cerebral Infarction
-A Successful Repair with Ligature of the Right Common Carotid Artery-
Yasuhisa Shimazaki, et al.