1. Reflections on the progress of Japanese thoracic surgery over the past half century and recommendations for the coming century

   • Hitoshi Koyanagi

   Presidential Address Pages: 529 - 541

2. Postoperative complications in patients of esophageal cancer after neoadjuvant chemotherapy

   • Junji Minamide
   • Norio Aoyama
   • Yoichi Kameda

   Original Article Pages: 542 - 545

3. Survival and postoperative complications after extended surgery for non-small-cell lung cancer

   • Ken Kodama
   • Masahiko Higashiyama
   • Toshiyuki Kabuto

   Original Article Pages: 546 - 551

4. Analysis of postoperative complications after esophagectomy for esophageal cancer in patients receiving neoadjuvant therapy

   • Reiki Eguchi
   • Hiroko Ide
   • Ken Takasaki

   Original Article Pages: 552 - 558

5. Venous function and delayed leg swelling following saphenectomy in coronary artery bypass grafting

   • Yasushi Terada
   • Sachito Fukuda
   • Toshio Mitsui

   Original Article Pages: 559 - 562

6. Poststernotomy mediastinitis treated by rectus muscle flap plugging

   • Norifumi Ohtani
   • Nobuyuki Akasaka
   • Toshiaki Kawakami

   Case Report Pages: 563 - 566

7. Two-stage operation for endobronchial lipoma and lung cancer using bronchoscopy and thoracoscopy in an elderly patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

   • Hiroaki Nomori
   • Hirotoshi Horio
   • Keiichi Suemasu

   Case Report Pages: 567 - 569

8. Surgical treatment of tricuspid regurgitation caused by Löffler’s endocarditis

   • Yutaka Imoto
   • Ryuji Tominaga
   • Hisataka Yasui

   Case Report Pages: 570 - 573

9. A 22-year course of the Kay-Shiley disc valve with muscle guard at the mitral position

   • Yoshimasa Sakamoto
   • Hiromi Kurosawa
   • Hirokuni Naganuma

   Case Report Pages: 574 - 576

10. Video-assisted thoracoscopic esophagomyotomy for achalasia after pulmonary lobectomy

    • Koji Mikami
    • Katsunobu Kawahara
    • Akira Motohiro

    Original Article Pages: 577 - 581