Erratum to: Gen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg DOI 10.1007/s11748-014-0476-9

An error appeared in the above-cited article.

The publication shown in Reference 2 should not have been listed or cited in the article. Instead, the citation actually was of the Japanese Association for Thoracic Surgery (JATS) Annual Report 2012, Interim Report, presented at the 3rd Board meeting 2014 of the Japanese Association for Thoracic Surgery, Tokyo, 26 March 2014, by Munetaka Masuda, M.D., Yokohama City University.