A new method for establishing an intrapulmonary tumor in the rabbit Yuzo ShomuraYukihito SaitoHiroji Imamura OriginalPaper Pages: 337 - 343
Contractile response of different segments of the latissimus dorsi muscle to chronic stimulation S. Fehmi KatircioĝluA. Tulga UlusBahattin Koç OriginalPaper Pages: 344 - 348
Coronary occlusion using bi-directionally stretched elastic sutures during off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting Yukio OkazakiTsuyoshi ItohMasafumi Natsuaki OriginalPaper Pages: 349 - 354
When and how does nonstructural mechanical prosthetic heart valve dysfunction occur? Yoshio MisawaTsutomu SaitoKatsuo Fuse OriginalPaper Pages: 355 - 360
Left ventricular mass index reduction early after an isolated aortic valve replacement with St Jude medical 19A-HP Shin UchikawaShigeyuki AomiHitoshi Koyanagi OriginalPaper Pages: 361 - 367
Autocrine motility factor-receptor gene expression in lung cancer Iwao TakanamiKen Takeuchi OriginalPaper Pages: 368 - 373
Pseudoaneurysm from the mitral-aortic intervalvular fibrosa following endocarditis Yukifusa YokoyamaShuji TamakiMasato Mutsuga OriginalPaper Pages: 374 - 377
Advantage of earlier thoracoscopic clipping of thoracic duct for post-operation chylothorax following thoracic aneurysm surgery Nobuaki HirataTakayoshi UenoTetsuo Kido OriginalPaper Pages: 378 - 380
Successful emergency aortic valve replacement following percutaneous cardiopulmonary support for the patient with aortic stenosis and cardiac arrest Hironori MatsuhisaNobuhiko MukouharaTsutomu Shida OriginalPaper Pages: 381 - 383
Early valvular obliteration of cryopreserved aortic valve allograft Aya SaitoToshiya OhtsukaYutaka Takazawa OriginalPaper Pages: 384 - 386
Floating ball thrombus in the left atrium with mitral stenosis Takahiko MisumiMikihiko KudoHiroya Kumamaru OriginalPaper Pages: 387 - 389
Spontaneous esophageal rupture treated with staged operations Masahiro KohYasuhiko YoshiokaMasahiro Fujikawa OriginalPaper Pages: 390 - 392
Perioperative myocardial infarction in patients undergoing off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting Shun-ichiro SakamotoMasami OchiShigeo Tanaka OriginalPaper Pages: 393 - 396
Aortic connector for coronary revascularization in a patient with Takayasu's disease Atsushi YamaguchiHideo AdachiTakashi Ino OriginalPaper Pages: 397 - 399
Selective segmental jet injection to distinguish the intersegmental plane using jet ventilation Hidehito MatsuokaWataru NishioNoriaki Tsubota OriginalPaper Pages: 400 - 401