Volume 12 Number 6 December, 2006


EDITORIAL
Benefit of Sentinel Lymph Node Mapping in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
Yoshihiro Minamiya, et al.

REVIEW
Thoracoscopic Surgery for Lung Cancer
Toshiaki Morikawa

ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Role of Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery for the Diagnosis of Indeterminate Pulmonary Nodule
Shinji Hirai, et al.
Is Oxygen Supplementation Needed after Standard Pulmonary Resection for Primary Lung Cancer?
Tokujiro Yano, et al.
Limitations of Retrograde Continuous Tepid Blood Cardioplegia for Myocardial Remodeling
Takeshiro Fujii, et al.
Central Arterial Cannulation and the Arch First Method for Aortic Arch Aneurysm Repair
Noritsugu Morishige, et al.
Simplified Elephant Trunk Technique Promotes Thrombo-Occlusion of the False Lumen in Acute Type A Aortic Dissection
Shinji Miyamoto, et al.

CASE REPORT
Pulmonary Torsion Following Right Upper Lobectomy
Shinji Kanemitsu, et al.
A Subtotal Sternectomy Successfully Reconstructed with Composix MeshTM
Kazuo Yoshida, et al.
Giant Mediastinal Liposarcoma: A Case Report
Ajay Punpale, et al.
Delayed Hemopericardium with Constrictive Pericarditis after Blunt Trauma: A Report of a Surgical Case
Hung-Shih Lin, et al.
Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting for a Patient with Anomalous Origin of the Right Coronary Artery from the Pulmonary Artery
Masanori Ogiwara, et al.
Large Saphenous Vein Graft Aneurysm with a Fistula to the Right Atrium
Tsutomu Sugimoto, et al.
Rupture of a Normal-Sized, Non-Dissected Distal Aortic Arch in a Marfan Patient
Yuji Maruyama, et al.
Late-Term Regression of Stenosis at the Kink Site in the Internal Thoracic Artery in Two Cases
Mizuho Imamaki, et al.

NEW METHOD
A Case Report on a Full-Thickness Chest Wall Reconstruction with Polypropylene Mesh and Stainless Steel Mesh Concurrently Using a Transverse Rectus Abdominis Myocutaneous Flap
Naoyuki Yoshino, et al.