1. How to educate and evaluate cardiothoracic surgeon

   • Koichi Tabayashi

   Presidential Address 07 September 2013 Pages: 609 - 611

   

2. Editorial comments on patch size and mechanics in the surgery for post-infarction ventricular septal perforation

   • Masashi Komeda

   Editorial 22 August 2013 Pages: 612 - 613

   

3. Transcatheter closure of secundum atrial septal defect

   • Hideto Shimpo
   • Reina Hojo
   • Hironori Tempaku

   Current Topics Review Article 18 June 2013 Pages: 614 - 618

4. Surgical management of mitral annular calcification

   • Yukikatsu Okada

   Current Topics Review Article 13 February 2013 Pages: 619 - 625

   

5. Adding coronary artery bypass grafting to aortic valve replacement increases operative mortality for elderly (70 years and older) patients with aortic stenosis

   • Yasuyuki Sasaki
   • Hidekazu Hirai
   • Shigefumi Suehiro

   Original Article 15 March 2013 Pages: 626 - 631

   

6. Finite element analysis regarding patch size, stiffness, and contact condition to the endocardium in surgery for post infarction ventricular septal rupture

   • Toshiaki Ito
   • Hiroaki Hagiwara
   • Takenori Yamazaki

   Original Article 23 April 2013 Pages: 632 - 639

   

7. Rapidly progressive paraplegia and pleural empyema: how does that correlate?

   • Mario Lescan
   • Guilherme Lepski
   • Tobias Walker

   Case Report 30 December 2012 Pages: 640 - 642

   

8. Primary pulmonary angiosarcoma, an exceptional neoplasm with a poor prognosis: reports of two cases and review of the literature

   • Gerardo Andrés Obeso Carillo
   • Eva María García Fontán
   • Alberto Pérez Pedrosa

   Case Report 11 January 2013 Pages: 643 - 647

   

9. Solitary lung meningioma with synchronous brain nodules: clinical and pathological features

   • Lawrence Okiror
   • Jan von der Thusen
   • George Ladas

   Case Report 10 October 2012 Pages: 648 - 650

   

10. Solitary mediastinal metastasis of hepatocellular carcinoma treated by video-assisted thoracic surgery: report of a case

    • Kazuhiro Suzumura
    • Tadamichi Hirano
    • Jiro Fujimoto

    Case Report 16 October 2012 Pages: 651 - 654

    

11. Mature teratoma of the posterior mediastinum: report of a case

    • Takayuki Ibi
    • Kyoji Hirai
    • Kazuo Shimizu

    Case Report 27 October 2012 Pages: 655 - 658

    

12. Minute pulmonary meningothelial-like nodules coexisting with pulmonary cryptococcosis mimicking lung cancer

    • Kazunori Kamiya
    • Akira Yoshizu
    • Hiroyuki Hayashi

    Case Report 27 October 2012 Pages: 659 - 662