Volume 12 Number 5 October, 2006


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.