Vol 10, No 5 (May 31, 2018) - Journal of Thoracic Disease

Wei-Jie Guan, Jia-Cheng Li, Fang Liu, Jian Zhou, Ya-Ping Liu, Chao Ling, Yong-Hua Gao, Hui-Min Li, Jing-Jing Yuan, Yan Huang, Chun-Lan Chen, Rong-Chang Chen, Xue Zhang, Nan-Shan Zhong

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Next generation sequencing-based molecular profiling of lung adenocarcinoma using pleural effusion specimens

Liping Liu, Di Shao, Qiuhua Deng, Hailing Tang, Jingjing Wang, Jilong Liu, Fengming Guo, Yongping Lin, Zhiyu Peng, Mao Mao, Karsten Kristiansen, Mingzhi Ye, Jianxing He

PDF Pages: 2631-2637 Full Text (2999) Open Access

The role of virtual-assisted lung mapping in the resection of ground glass nodules

Masaaki Sato, Taiji Kuwata, Atsushi Kitamura, Kenji Misawa, Kota Imashimizu, Keiji Yamanashi, Masaki Ikeda, Terumoto Koike, Masashi Kobayashi, Shinji Kosaka, Ryuta Fukai, Noritaka Isowa, Kazuhiro Nagayama, Akihiro Aoyama, Hiroshi Date, Jun Nakajima

PDF Pages: 2638-2647 Full Text (1980) Open Access

Long-term survival of the middle and lower thoracic esophageal cancer patients after surgical treatment through left or right thoracic approach

Ding Yang, You-Sheng Mao, Ke-Lin Sun, Ju-Wei Mu, Qi Xue, Da-Li Wang, Yu- Shun Gao, Jun Zhao, Xiang-Yang Liu, De-Kang Fang, Jian Li, Yong-Gang Wang, Liang-Ze Zhang, Jin- Feng Huang, Bing Wang

PDF Pages: 2648-2655 Full Text (1681) Open Access

On-pump beating heart versus conventional coronary artery bypass grafting: comparative study on early and long-term clinical outcomes

Ho Jin Kim, You Na Oh, Min Ho Ju, Joon Bum Kim, Sung-Ho Jung, Cheol Hyun Chung, Jae Won Lee, Suk Jung Choo

PDF Pages: 2656-2665 Full Text (2706) Open Access

Multi-level analysis of bacteria isolated from inpatients in respiratory departments in China

Xiang Tang, Meng Xiao, Chao Zhuo, Yingchun Xu, Nanshan Zhong

PDF Pages: 2666-2675 Full Text (2537) Open Access

High-resolution computed tomography features and CT-guided microcoil localization of subcentimeter pulmonary ground-glass opacities: radiological processing prior to video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery

Zi-Xuan Wang, Lin Li, Zhe Zhang, Guo-Hua Wang, De-Mao Kong, Xu-Dong Wang, Fa Wang

PDF Pages: 2676-2684 Full Text (1862) Open Access

Evaluating and assessing the prevalence of bedside ultrasound in emergency departments in China

Di Shi, Joseph H. Walline, Xuezhong Yu, Jun Xu, Priscilla P. Song, Huadong Zhu

PDF Pages: 2685-2690 Full Text (1934) Open Access

Long-term outcome after resection for recurrent oesophageal cancer

Fumihiko Kato, Satoko Monma, Kazuo Koyanagi, Jun Kanamori, Hiroyuki Daiko, Hiroyasu Igaki, Yuji Tachimori

PDF Pages: 2691-2699 Full Text (1788) Open Access

Effect of Liuweibuqi capsules on CD4⁺CD25⁺Foxp3⁺ regulatory T cells, helper T cells and lung function in patients with stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease complicated with lung Qi deficiency

Cheng-Yang Wang, Huan-Zhang Ding, Xiao Tang, Ze-Geng Li

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It is safe and feasible to omit the chest tube postoperatively for selected patients receiving thoracoscopic pulmonary resection: a meta-analysis

Pengfei Li, Cheng Shen, Yanming Wu, Yutian Lai, Kun Zhou, Guowei Che

PDF Pages: 2712-2721 Full Text (1550) Open Access

Lung volume reduction surgery does not increase daily physical activity in patients with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Noriane A. Sievi, Daniel Franzen, Malcolm Kohler, Christian F. Clarenbach

PDF Pages: 2722-2730 Full Text (1440) Open Access

Safety and efficacy of airway stenting in patients with malignant oesophago-airway fistula

Janusz R. Włodarczyk, Jarosław Kużdżał

PDF Pages: 2731-2739 Full Text (1404) Open Access

Qualitative coronary artery calcium assessment on CT lung screening exam helps predict first cardiac events

Katherine B. Malcolm, Danya L. Dinwoodey, Michael C. Cundiff, Shawn M. Regis, Andrea K. Borondy Kitts, Christoph Wald, Miranda L. Lynch, Wael Al-Husami, Andrea B. McKee, Brady J. McKee

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Pyrroloquinoline quinone attenuates cachexia-induced muscle atrophy via suppression of reactive oxygen species

Tongtong Xu, Xiaoming Yang, Changyue Wu, Jiaying Qiu, Qingqing Fang, Lingbin Wang, Shu Yu, Hualin Sun

PDF Pages: 2752-2759 Full Text (3064) Open Access

Effect of lung protective ventilation on coronary heart disease patients undergoing lung cancer resection

Wenjun Liu, Qian Huang, Duomao Lin, Liyun Zhao, Jun Ma

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ypT0N+: the unusual patient with pathological complete tumor response but with residual lymph node disease after neoadjuvant chemoradiation for esophageal cancer, what’s up?

Lieven Peter Depypere, Gil Vervloet, Toni Lerut, Johnny Moons, Gert De Hertogh, Xavier Sagaert, Willy Coosemans, Hans Van Veer, Philippe Robert Nafteux

PDF Pages: 2771-2778 Full Text (2706) Open Access

EphA2 chimeric antigen receptor-modified T cells for the immunotherapy of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

Hui Shi, Feng Yu, Yinting Mao, Qianqian Ju, Yingcheng Wu, Wen Bai, Peiwen Wang, Ran Xu, Maorong Jiang, Jiahai Shi

PDF Pages: 2779-2788 Full Text (2704) Open Access

The correlation of pulmonary arterial hypertension with late recurrence of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation after catheter ablation

Yan-Qun Zhang, Fei-Long Zhang, Wei-Wei Wang, Xue-Hai Chen, Jian-Hua Chen, Liang-Long Chen

PDF Pages: 2789-2794 Full Text (2963) Open Access

Pathologic complete response after induction therapy—the role of surgery in stage IIIA/B locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer

Waldemar Schreiner, Sofiya Gavrychenkova, Wojciech Dudek, Ralf Joachim Rieker, Sebastian Lettmaier, Rainer Fietkau, Horia Sirbu

PDF Pages: 2795-2803 Full Text (2708) Open Access

Suppression of mitochondrial respiration with local anesthetic ropivacaine targets breast cancer cells

Xiaodan Gong, Jiapeng Dan, Fang Li, Lishen Wang

PDF Pages: 2804-2812 Full Text (1831) Open Access

Interaction between treatment delivery delay and stage on the mortality from non-small cell lung cancer

Fernando Conrado Abrao, Igor Renato Louro Bruno de Abreu, Roberto Odebrecht Rocha, Felipe Dourado Munhoz, João Henrique Godoy Rodrigues, Bernardo Nogueira Batista

PDF Pages: 2813-2819 Full Text (1693) Open Access

Mitral valve repair versus replacement in patients with ischemic mitral regurgitation

Meng-Lin Lee, Thay-Hsiung Chen, Hsien-Da Huang, Shaw-Min Hou

PDF Pages: 2820-2828 Full Text (1906) Open Access

Prophylactic continuous positive airway pressure after pulmonary lobectomy: a randomized controlled trial

Alessandro Palleschi, Emilia Privitera, Marta Lazzeri, Sara Mariani, Lorenzo Rosso, Davide Tosi, Paolo Mendogni, Ilaria Righi, Rosaria Carrinola, Matteo Montoli, Marco Reda, Massimo Torre, Luigi Santambrogio, Mario Nosotti

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The effect of delayed adjuvant chemotherapy on relapse of triplenegative breast cancer

Shuang Li, Ding Ma, Hao-Hong Shi, Ke-Da Yu, Qiang Zhang

PDF Pages: 2837-2841 Full Text (3041) Open Access

Myasthenia gravis as a prognostic marker in patients with thymoma

Bernardo Cacho-Díaz, Karen Salmerón-Moreno, Nydia A. Lorenzana-Mendoza, Julia Texcocano, Oscar Arrieta

PDF Pages: 2842-2848 Full Text (2944) Open Access

Management of lung nodules in Brazil—assessment of realities, beliefs and attitudes: a study by the Brazilian Society of Thoracic Surgery (SBCT), the Brazilian Thoracic Society (SBPT) and the Brazilian College of Radiology (CBR)

Maria Teresa Ruiz Tsukazan, Ricardo Mingarini Terra, Frank Detterbeck, Ilka Lopes Santoro, Bruno Hochhegger, Gustavo de Souza Portes Meirelles, Gustavo Fortunato, Gustavo Faibischew Prado

PDF Pages: 2849-2856 Full Text (2061) Open Access

Can lobe-specific lymph node dissection be an alternative to systematic lymph node dissection in treating early-stage non-small cell lung cancer: a comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis?

Han-Yu Deng, Chang-Long Qin, Gang Li, Guha Alai, Yidan Lin, Xiao-Ming Qiu, Qinghua Zhou

PDF Pages: 2857-2865 Full Text (2215) Open Access

Systemic blood pressure trends and antihypertensive utilization following continuous-flow left ventricular assist device implantation: an analysis of the interagency registry for mechanically assisted circulatory support

Adham Elmously, Andreas R. de Biasi, Donald A. Risucci, Berhane Worku, Evelyn M. Horn, Arash Salemi

PDF Pages: 2866-2875 Full Text (1610) Open Access

Robotic-assisted mediastinal surgery: the first Chinese series of 167 consecutive cases

Hanyue Li, Jiantao Li, Jia Huang, Yunhai Yang, Qingquan Luo

PDF Pages: 2876-2880 Full Text (Video) (1990) Open Access

Comparison of clinical manifestations and treatment outcome according to age groups in adult patients with miliary tuberculosis

Jaehee Lee, Jae Kwang Lim, Eun Jin Kim, Deok Heon Lee, Yu Kyung Kim, Seung Soo Yoo, Shin Yup Lee, Seung Ick Cha, Jae Yong Park, Chang Ho Kim

PDF Pages: 2881-2889 Full Text (1928) Open Access

The painless combination of anatomically contoured titanium plates and porcine dermal collagen patch for chest wall reconstruction

Kingsfield Ong, Chin Siang Ong, Yang Chong Chua, Ali Akbar Fazuludeen, Aneez Dokeu Basheer Ahmed

PDF Pages: 2890-2897 Full Text (2254) Open Access

Risk factors of neuropathic pain after thoracic surgery

Takahiro Homma, Yoshinori Doki, Yutaka Yamamoto, Toshihiro Ojima, Yoshifumi Shimada, Naoya Kitamura, Naoki Yoshimura

PDF Pages: 2898-2907 Full Text (3148) Open Access

A predictor for mitral valve repair in patient with rheumatic heart disease: the bending angle of anterior mitral leaflet

Jin-Tao Fu, Mohammad Sharif Popal, Yu-Qing Jiao, Hai-Bo Zhang, Shuai Zheng, Qiu-Ming Hu, Wei Han, Xu Meng

PDF Pages: 2908-2915 Full Text (1537) Open Access

Lung function in the late postoperative phase and influencing factors in patients undergoing pulmonary lobectomy

Ryoichi Matsumoto, Shinzo Takamori, Shintaro Yokoyama, Toshihiro Hashiguchi, Daigo Murakami, Koichi Yoshiyama, Tatsuya Nishi, Masaki Kashihara, Masahiro Mitsuoka, Ryozo Hayashida, Tatsuyuki Kakuma, Yoshito Akagi

PDF Pages: 2916-2923 Full Text (2845) Open Access

Three-field versus two-field lymph node dissection for thoracic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma: a propensity scorematched comparison

Longlong Shao, Ting Ye, Longfei Ma, Dong Lin, Hong Hu, Yihua Sun, Yawei Zhang, Jiaqing Xiang, Haiquan Chen

PDF Pages: 2924-2932 Full Text (2663) Open Access

Video-assisted thoracic surgery for tiny pulmonary nodules with real-time image guidance in the hybrid theatre: the initial experience

Peter S. Y. Yu, Cheuk Man Chu, Rainbow W. H. Lau, Innes Y. P. Wan, Malcolm J. Underwood, Simon C. H. Yu, Calvin S. H. Ng

PDF Pages: 2933-2939 Full Text (1873) Open Access

Combined lipiodol marking and video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery in a hybrid operating room

Satoshi Fumimoto, Kiyoshi Sato, Mitsuhiro Koyama, Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Yoshifumi Narumi, Nobuharu Hanaoka, Takahiro Katsumata

PDF Pages: 2940-2947 Full Text (1987) Open Access

The correlation between crizotinib efficacy and molecular heterogeneity by next-generation sequencing in non-small cell lung cancer

Tangfeng Lv, Qian Zou, Zhengbo Song, Hongbing Liu, Qiming Wang, Yong Song

PDF Pages: 2948-2959 Full Text (2031) Open Access

Percutaneous coronary intervention versus optimal medical therapy for patients with chronic total occlusion: a meta-analysis and systematic review

Yingxu Ma, Dongping Li, Jiayi Li, Yixi Li, Fan Bai, Fen Qin, Shenghua Zhou, Qiming Liu

PDF Pages: 2960-2967 Full Text (2414) Open Access

Native T1 and T2 mapping by cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging in pressure overloaded left and right heart diseases

Jing Wang, Hang Zhao, Yue Wang, Howard C. Herrmann, Walter R. T. Witschey, Yuchi Han

PDF Pages: 2968-2975 Full Text (3652) Open Access

A comparison between two types of indwelling pleural catheters for management of malignant pleural effusions

Sushilkumar Satish Gupta, Charalampos S. Floudas, Abhinav B. Chandra

PDF Pages: 2976-2980 Full Text (2680) Open Access

Inter-relationship among myasthenia gravis, WHO histology, and Masaoka clinical stage and effect on surgical methods in patients with thymoma: a retrospective cohort study

Jianfei Shen, Hongtao Tie, Anyi Xu, Dan Chen, Dehua Ma, Bo Zhang, Chengchu Zhu, Qingchen Wu

PDF Pages: 2981-2990 Full Text (3218) Open Access

TP53 mutations predict for poor survival in ALK rearrangement lung adenocarcinoma patients treated with crizotinib

Wen-Xian Wang, Chun-Wei Xu, Yan-Ping Chen, Wei Liu, Li-Hua Zhong, Fang-Fang Chen, Wu Zhuang, Yun-Jian Huang, Zhang-Zhou Huang, Rong-Rong Chen, Yan-Fang Guan, Xin Yi, Tang- Feng Lv, Wei-Feng Zhu, Jian-Ping Lu, Xiao-Jiang Wang, Yi Shi, Xian-Dong Lin, Gang Chen, Yong Song

PDF Pages: 2991-2998 Full Text (2542) Open Access

Pleural catheters after thoracoscopic treatment of malignant pleural effusion: a randomized comparative study on quality of life

Francesco Petrella, Patrick Maisonneuve, Alessandro Borri, Monica Casiraghi, Stefano Donghi, Sava Durkovic, Niccolo Filippi, Domenico Galetta, Roberto Gasparri, Juliana Guarize, Giorgio Lo Iacono, Alessio Vincenzo Mariolo, Adele Tessitore, Lorenzo Spaggiari

PDF Pages: 2999-3004 Full Text (1606) Open Access

Prognostic prediction of clinical stage IA lung cancer presenting as a pure solid nodule

Jong Hui Suh, Jae Kil Park, Youngkyu Moon

PDF Pages: 3005-3015 Full Text (1889) Open Access

New dynamic viewing of mast cells in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH): contributors or outsiders to cardiovascular remodeling

Jian Xu, Jingjing Wang, Chengjie Shao, Xiaoning Zeng, Lixiang Sun, Hui Kong, Weiping Xie, Hong Wang

PDF Pages: 3016-3026 Full Text (2303) Open Access

Mechanical interventricular dependency supports hemodynamics in tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy

Juan Lei, Zhongxia Sun, Lingchun Lyu, Randall G. Green, Ernest Scalzetti, David Feiglin, Jingfeng Wang, Kan Liu

PDF Pages: 3027-3038 Full Text (1568) Open Access

Guideline

The Society for Translational Medicine: the assessment and prevention of venous thromboembolism after lung cancer surgery

Hui Li, Gening Jiang, Servet Bölükbas, Chun Chen, Haiquan Chen, Keneng Chen, Jun Chen, Xiangli Cui, Wentao Fang, Shugeng Gao, Sebastien Gilbert, Jianhua Fu, Xiangning Fu, Yasuhiro Hida, Shanqing Li, Xiaofei Li, Yin Li, Hecheng Li, Yongjun Li, Deruo Liu, Lunxu Liu, Jianxing He, Jie He, Giuseppe Marulli, Hiroyuki Oizumi, Marc de Perrot, René Horsleben Petersen, Yaron Shargall, Alan Sihoe, Qunyou Tan, Qun Wang, Shun Xu, Mei Yang, Yuanhua Yang, Zhentao Yu, Lanjun Zhang, Xun Zhang, Heng Zhao, Xiuyi Zhi

PDF Pages: 3039-3053 Full Text (5863) Open Access

Brief Report

Medical thoracoscopy removal of a self-expandable metallic stent migration into pleural cavity

Wen-Chien Cheng, Biing-Ru Wu, Chia-Hung Chen, Wei-Chih Liao, Chih-Yen Tu

PDF Pages: 3054-3058 Full Text (1877) Open Access

Surgical Technique

Extended right upper sleeve lobectomy with double-barrel segmental bronchoplasty

Atsushi Hata, Hironobu Wada, Yuichi Sakairi, Hajime Tamura, Taiki Fujiwara, Hidemi Suzuki, Takahiro Nakajima, Masako Chiyo, Ichiro Yoshino

PDF Pages: 3059-3064 Full Text (Video) (2148) Open Access

Intraoperative descending aortic dissection during aortic root replacement: successful management

Anton A. Gryaznov, Wei-Guo Ma, Young Erben, Mohammad A. Zafar, Camilo A. Velasquez, Ayman Saeyeldin, Bulat A. Ziganshin, John A. Elefteriades

PDF Pages: 3065-3069 Full Text (Video) (2336) Open Access

Application of the Montgomery T-tube in subglottic tracheal benign stenosis

Huihui Hu, Jisong Zhang, Fengjie Wu, Enguo Chen

PDF Pages: 3070-3077 Full Text (4198) Open Access

Technical Note

An alternative chest tube placement after uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery

Alessandro Palleschi, Paolo Mendogni, Alessio Vincenzo Mariolo, Mario Nosotti, Lorenzo Rosso

PDF Pages: 3078-3080 Full Text (1166) Open Access

Perspective

Mechanism of death: there’s more to it than sudden cardiac arrest

David C. Parish, Hemant Goyal, Francis C. Dane

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Original Article of Air Pollution Section¹

Relationship between free and total malondialdehyde, a well-established marker of oxidative stress, in various types of human biospecimens

Xiaoxing Cui, Jicheng Gong, Hailong Han, Linchen He, Yanbo Teng, Teresa Tetley, Rudy Sinharay, Kian Fan Chung, Talat Islam, Frank Gilliland, Stephanie Grady, Eric Garshick, Zhen Li, Junfeng (Jim) Zhang

PDF Pages: 3088-3097 Full Text (11118) Open Access

Case Report of Interventional Pulmonology Corner²

An unusual foreign body aspiration requiring an unusual retrieval technique

Gabriel Farkas, Debra Lederman, Tana Pradhan, Kassem Harris

PDF Pages: 3098-3101 Full Text (Video) (1719) Open Access

Review Article

Management of drug-resistant tuberculosis in special sub-populations including those with HIV co-infection, pregnancy, diabetes, organ-specific dysfunction, and in the critically ill

Aliasgar Esmail, Natasha F. Sabur, Ikechi Okpechi, Keertan Dheda

PDF Pages: 3102-3118 Full Text (5623) Open Access

miRNAs as biomarkers and for the early detection of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)

Yichao Han, Hecheng Li

PDF Pages: 3119-3131 Full Text (5597) Open Access

Malignancies after lung transplantation

Anne Olland, Pierre-Emmanuel Falcoz, Gilbert Massard

PDF Pages: 3132-3140 Full Text (1347) Open Access

New frontiers in immunosuppression

Luke J. Benvenuto, Michaela R. Anderson, Selim M. Arcasoy

PDF Pages: 3141-3155 Full Text (4428) Open Access

Case Report

Is “lung repair centre” a possible answer to organ shortage?— transplantation of left and right lung at two different centres after ex vivo lung perfusion evaluation and repair: case report

Alessandro Palleschi, Lorenzo Rosso, Marco Schiavon, Alessandro Rebusso, Paolo Mendogni, Federico Rea, Luigi Santambrogio, Mario Nosotti, Franco Valenza

PDF Pages: E318-E321 Full Text (1517) Open Access

Case study-based time-course analysis of symptoms of respiratory syncytial virus infections followed by acute sinusitis in otherwise-healthy adults

Hidekazu Nishimura, Ko Sato, Francois Marie Ngako Kadji, Suguru Ohmiya, Hiroko Ito, Toru Kubo, Sho Hashimoto

PDF Pages: E322-E327 Full Text (6051) Open Access

Surgical removal of an intrapulmonary aberrant needle: report of a case

Hajime Otsuka, Takashi Makino, Yoko Azuma, Satoshi Koezuka, Keishi Sugino, Yoshinobu Hata, Yoichi Anami, Takashi Azumi, Akira Iyoda

PDF Pages: E328-E331 Full Text (1427) Open Access

Ochronosis of the aortic valve

Daneish Selvakumar, Karan Sian, Stuart Sugito, Taranpreet Singh

PDF Pages: E332-E334 Full Text (1359) Open Access

Acute attack of recurrent esophageal duplication cyst in an adult: case report and literature review

Xinchun Duan, Yong Cui, Ying He, Shaofa Xu

PDF Pages: E335-E339 Full Text (4410) Open Access

Carcinoembryonic antigen-positive pleural effusion in early stage non-small cell lung cancer without pleural infiltration

Njanja Enz, Fernando Fragoso, Alexander Gamrekeli, Frank Lippek, Wolfgang Jungraithmayr

PDF Pages: E340-E343 Full Text (2720) Open Access

Anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery diagnosed during transcatheter treatment of severe pulmonary branch stenoses: a potentially life-threatening situation

Laurence Robinson, Alban-Elouen Baruteau, Alain Fraisse

PDF Pages: E344-E346 Full Text (1021) Open Access

Acute gastroesophageal intussusception in a patient with pneumomediastinum, pneumoperitoneum, and extensive subcutaneous emphysema resulting from iatrogenic colonic perforation

Geum Hee Hwang, Jun Ho Kim, Kyung Hee Lee, Ga Ram Kim, Yu Jin Ku, Yong Sun Jeon, Soon Gu Cho

PDF Pages: E347-E350 Full Text (2567) Open Access

Secondary pulmonary alveolar proteinosis predominant in the transplanted lung in patients with idiopathic interstitial pneumonia: an autopsy case

Satoshi Ikeda, Akimasa Sekine, Tomohisa Baba, Takuma Katano, Hideaki Yamakawa, Tsuneyuki Oda, Tae Iwasawa, Mai Matsumura, Tamiko Takemura, Takashi Ogura

PDF Pages: E351-E354 Full Text (1613) Open Access

A new application for argon beam coagulation: the thymoma patient with pleural recurrence

Yen-Chiang Tseng, Yen-Han Tseng, En-Kuei Tang, Yih-Gang Goan

PDF Pages: E355-E358 Full Text (1133) Open Access

Lung adenocarcinoma patient with an EGFR kinase domain duplication (KDD) and the response to icotinib

You-Cai Zhu, Wen-Xian Wang, Chun-Wei Xu, Qing-He Tan, Jian-Ying Li, Wu Zhuang, Zheng-Bo Song, Kai-Qi Du, Gang Chen, Tang-Feng Lv, Yong Song

PDF Pages: E359-E363 Full Text (2125) Open Access

Complete excision of acute necrotic regression of thymoma mimicking an infected mediastinal cyst with mediastinitis using video-assisted thoracoscopic technique

Yong Hwan Kim, Jae Jun Kim, Seong Cheol Jeong, In Sub Kim

PDF Pages: E364-E367 Full Text (1314) Open Access

Non-pyothorax-associated primary pleural lymphoma without pleural effusion in an immunocompetent patient: a case report and literature review

Chuan Shao, Yongwei Guo, Xianfa Xu, Deng Pan, Bijiong Wang, Yaodong Tang, Shuguang Xu

PDF Pages: E368-E371 Full Text (1120) Open Access

A surgical case of lung cancer with poor general status associated with parathyroid hormone-related protein

Toshiko Kamata, Eitetsu Koh, Atsuko Masunaga, Asako Okabayashi, Mizue Hasegawa, Hideki Katsura, Kenzo Hiroshima, Yasuo Sekine

PDF Pages: E372-E377 Full Text (1730) Open Access

Three-port mediastino-laparoscopic esophagectomy (TPMLE) for an 81-year-old female with early-staged esophageal cancer: a case report of combining single-port mediastinoscopic esophagectomy and reduced port laparoscopic surgery

Di Lu, Xiguang Liu, Mei Li, Siyang Feng, Xiaoying Dong, Xuezhou Yu, Hua Wu, Gang Xiong, Ruijun Cai, Guoxin Li, Kaican Cai

PDF Pages: E378-E382 Full Text (1668) Open Access

Situs inversus uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic right anatomic segmentectomy S1-S2 and S6

Diego Gonzalez-Rivas, Kostis Soultanis, Hui Zheng, Yuming Zhu

PDF Pages: E383-E386 Full Text (Video) (1578) Open Access

Transcatheter aortic valve implantation for patients with lung cancer and aortic valve stenosis

Takashi Sakai, Kazuyuki Yahagi, Sumio Miura, Tatsuhiro Hoshino, Toshiya Yokota, Kengo Tanabe, Shingo Ikeda

PDF Pages: E387-E390 Full Text (1526) Open Access

Right sleeve pneumonectomy via uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic approach

Chenlu Yang, Firas Abu Akar, Jian Chen, Lei Jiang

PDF Pages: E391-E396 Full Text (Video) (1113) Open Access

Meet the Professor

Xiaoxin Chen: funding remains the greatest challenge to research due to constant improvement of technologies

Brad Li

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News

New perspectives in multidisciplinary treatment of esophageal cancer: the “First East Asian Conference on Multidisciplinary Treatment of Esophageal Cancer” held in Chengdu, Sichuan Province

Editorial Office

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Erratum

Erratum to uncontrolled and under-diagnosed asthma in a Damascus shelter during the Syrian crisis

Yousser Mohammad, Shaaban Rafea, Youssef Latifeh, Ali Khaddam, Bisher Sawaf, Mhd Ismael Zakaria, Mohammad Sadek Al Masalmeh, Yaser Fawaz, Abdoulraouf Allaham, Imad Almani, Heba Al-Tarchah, Ayham Ghazal, Ali Zaher, Hala Rifai, Hamed Joumah, S. Dresden Glockler-Lauf, Teresa To

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Disclosure:

1. The series “Air Pollution” was commissioned by the Editorial office, Journal of Thoracic Disease without any sponsorship or funding. Junfeng (Jim) Zhang served as the unpaid Guest Editor for the series.

2. The series “Interventional Pulmonology Corner” was commissioned by the Editorial office, Journal of Thoracic Disease without any sponsorship or funding. Kassem Harris served as the unpaid Guest Editor for the series.

Vol 10, No 5 (May 31, 2018): Journal of Thoracic Disease

Editorial

Original Article