1. Feasibility of the fast-track recovery program after cardiac surgery in Japan

   • Makoto Yanatori
   • Shinji Tomita
   • Youichirou Ueno

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 12 November 2007 Pages: 445 - 449

2. Barium-enhanced imaging of the coronary vasculature of the porcine myocardium: empirical investigation into the theory of the ventricular myocardial band

   • Hiroshi Nagamine
   • Shigeharu Sawa
   • Go Watanabe

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 12 November 2007 Pages: 450 - 454

3. Pulmonary metastasis from colorectal carcinoma with hepatic metastasis

   • Takuma Tsukioka
   • Noritoshi Nishiyama
   • Shigefumi Suehiro

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 12 November 2007 Pages: 455 - 460

4. Salvage esophagectomy following definitive chemoradiotherapy

   • Mitsuyo Nishimura
   • Hiroyuki Daiko
   • Kanji Nagai

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 12 November 2007 Pages: 461 - 465

5. Neurally mediated syncope after thoracic surgery diagnosed in the intensive care unit

   • Noriyuki Matsutani
   • Bonpei Takase
   • Tadaaki Maehara

   CASE REPORT 12 November 2007 Pages: 466 - 469

6. Pulmonary Paragonimus westermani with false-positive fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography mimicking primary lung cancer

   • Toshihiro Osaki
   • Tatsuo Takama
   • Tsunehiro Oyama

   CASE REPORT 12 November 2007 Pages: 470 - 472

7. Total arch replacement through re-median sternotomy after coronary surgery

   • Hitoshi Inafuku
   • Hitoshi Ogino
   • Soichiro Kitamura

   CASE REPORT 12 November 2007 Pages: 473 - 475

8. Bronchopulmonary foregut malformation in an adult

   • Yojiro Yutaka
   • Mitsugu Omasa
   • Toshihiko Taki

   CASE REPORT 12 November 2007 Pages: 476 - 478