1. Completion pneumonectomy for recurrent or second primary lung cancer

   • Masashi Muraoka
   • Tadayuki Oka
   • Hiroyoshi Ayabe

   OriginalPaper Pages: 407 - 413

2. Experimental study of pulmonary artery infusion with cisplatin in a solitary pulmonary tumor model using a rat colorectal adenocarcinoma cell line

   • Hideyasu Omiya
   • Yukihito Saito
   • Hiroji Imamura

   OriginalPaper Pages: 414 - 419

3. Early results and characteristic problems associated with cardiac surgery in long-term dialysis patients

   • Yoshihiro Nakayama
   • Ryuzo Sakata
   • Masashi Ura

   OriginalPaper Pages: 420 - 423

4. Detection and management of concomitant coronary artery disease in patients undergoing thoracic aortic surgery

   • Toshihiko Ueda
   • Hideyuki Shimizu
   • Shiaki Kawada

   OriginalPaper Pages: 424 - 430

5. Ultrasonic integrated backscatter in early assessment of myocardial injury during open heart surgery

   • Shouhei Maeda
   • Nobuaki Hirata
   • Hikaru Matsuda

   OriginalPaper Pages: 431 - 437

6. Predicting blood transfusion factors in coronary artery bypass surgery

   • Yukihisa Isomatsu
   • Hiroyuki Tsukui
   • Yasushi Nishiya

   OriginalPaper Pages: 438 - 442

7. Toxicity and pharmacokinetics of isolated lung perfusion with cisplatin in rat

   • Yoshikazu Kaneda
   • David Liu
   • Robert J. Ginsberg

   OriginalPaper Pages: 443 - 448

8. Right atrial myxoma complicated with pulmonary embolism

   • Motohiro Oshiumi
   • Kazuhiro Hashimoto
   • Katsuhisa Onoguchi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 449 - 452

9. Aortic valve replacement in a heavily calcified “porcelain” aorta

   • Hiroshi Okamoto
   • Kazuro Fujimoto
   • Takao Niimi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 453 - 456

10. Multiple thymoma with myotonic dystrophy

    • Takashi Hirai
    • Akira Yamanaka
    • Koji Yamianaka

    OriginalPaper Pages: 457 - 460

11. Left ventricular free wall rupture possibly induced by coronary spasm

    • Osamu Shigemitsu
    • Tetsuo Hadama
    • Tomoyuki Wada

    OriginalPaper Pages: 461 - 465

12. Cancer of the gastric tube reconstructed through the posterior mediastinal route after radical surgery for esophageal cancer

    • Hiroyuki Suzuki
    • Michihiko Kitamura
    • Jun-ichi Ogawa

    OriginalPaper Pages: 466 - 469

13. Metastatic thyroid cancer manifesting as a mediastinal mass in a man with an aberrant right subclavian artery

    • Fengshi Chen
    • Akitoshi Tatsumi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 470 - 472

14. Simultaneous total arch replacement and abdominal aortic surgery

    • Naoki Washiyama
    • Teruhisa Kazui
    • Bashar AH. Muhammad

    OriginalPaper Pages: 473 - 475

15. Right atrial rupture in blunt chest trauma

    • Keiichi Fujiwara
    • Yasuaki Naito
    • Masahiro Shinozaki

    OriginalPaper Pages: 476 - 478

16. “Are there so many adult ductal aneurysms? This term may be misleading for pathogenesis and choice of surgical procedure

    • Shinpei Yoshii
    • Hiroyoshi Komai

    Letter to the Editor Pages: 479 - 480