1. Quo vadis, esophageal surgery?

   • Hiromasa Fujita

   Editorial Pages: 235 - 236

2. Perioperative rehabilitation and physiotherapy for lung cancer patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

   • Yasuo Sekine
   • Masako Chiyo
   • Takehiko Fujisawa

   Original Article Pages: 237 - 243

3. Early results of off-pump coronary artery bypass

   • Mizuho Imamaki
   • Atsushi Ishida
   • Masaru Miyazaki

   Original Article Pages: 244 - 250

4. Cognitive dysfunction following cardiovascular surgery

   • Manabu Sakurai
   • Yoshiharu Takahara
   • Kenji Mogi

   Original Article Pages: 251 - 254

5. Kommerell’s diverticular rupture complicated by aberrant left subclavian artery and right aortic arch successfully treated surgically

   • Nobuaki Kaki
   • Yoshihito Irie
   • Takao Imazeki

   Case Report Pages: 255 - 258

6. Successful repair of traumatic tricuspid valve regurgitation

   • Keiichi Fujiwara
   • Takahiro Hisaoka
   • Yoshitaka Okamura

   Case Report Pages: 259 - 262

7. Basaloid carcinoma of the lung

   • Kyoji Hirai
   • Kiyoshi Koizumi
   • Masashi Kawamoto

   Case Report Pages: 263 - 265

8. Metastatic somatostatinoma of the chest wall

   • Yasushi Sakamaki
   • Tetsuo Kido
   • Masahiko Tsujimoto

   Case Report Pages: 266 - 268

9. Pedicled cardiac hemangioma with right ventricular outflow tract obstruction

   • Yutaka Iba
   • Sunao Watanabe
   • Hitoshi Koyanagi

   Case Report Pages: 269 - 271

10. Rare complication of dissection of valsalva sinus with aorto-left atrial fistula in active aortic valve endocarditis

    • Yasunori Cho
    • Satoru Suzuki
    • Yoshiyuki Haga

    Case Report Pages: 272 - 275

11. Malignant fibrous histiocytoma of the trachea

    • Yukinori Sakao
    • Shinji Tomimitsu
    • Tsuyoshi Itoh

    Case Report Pages: 276 - 279

12. Catamenial pneumothorax in a pregnant patient

    • Hiromu Yoshioka
    • Takayuki Fukui
    • Kohei Yokoi

    Case Report Pages: 280 - 282

13. Double right coronary artery; fistula and atherosclerosis

    • Adem Grbolar Resatoglu
    • ELAmin E. Elnur
    • Ali Yener

    Case Report Pages: 283 - 285

14. Mediastinal castleman disease associated with pulmonary carcinoma, Mimicking N2 stage lung cancer

    • Hirotoshi Horio
    • Tsunekazu Hijima
    • Katsuyuki Kuwabara

    Case Report Pages: 286 - 289

15. Successful valve repair for congenital bicuspid aortic valve and degenerated prolapsed mitral valve

    • Akiko Tanaka
    • Kenji Okada
    • Yutaka Okita

    Case Report Pages: 290 - 292