1. Managing surgical quality based on database

   • Shinichi Takamoto

   Editorial Pages: 337 - 337

2. Recent experiences with minimally invasive pectus excavatum repair “nuss procedure”

   • Donald Nuss

   Special Contribution Pages: 338 - 344

3. Risk of recurrence after surgical resection of small-sized invasive lung adenocarcinoma

   • Atsushi Morio
   • Hideaki Miyamoto
   • Hiroshi Izumi

   Original Article Pages: 345 - 353

4. Late outcomes after isolated coronary artery bypass grafting for ischemic mitral regurgitation

   • Satsuki Fukushima
   • Junjiro Kobayashi
   • Soichiro Kitamura

   Original Article Pages: 354 - 360

5. Postoperative mediastinitis following hemiarch replacement

   • Koji Tsutsumi
   • Mikihiko Ookura

   Case Report Pages: 361 - 364

6. Sudden death from metastatic esophageal cancer to the ventricular septum

   • Masafumi Kataoka
   • Kaori Shigemitsu
   • Soichiro Nose

   Case Report Pages: 365 - 368

7. Pulmonary cryptococcosis mimicking pulmonary metastases in a patient treated with tegafururacil after lung cancer surgery

   • Shunsuke Endo
   • Noriko Saito
   • Yasunori Sohara

   Case Report Pages: 369 - 371

8. Combined aortic and mitral valve repair in active infective endocarditis

   • Hiroichiro Yamaguchi
   • Kiyoyuki Eishi
   • Seiji Matsukuma

   Case Report Pages: 372 - 376

9. Primary mediastinal lymph node malignancy with features suggestive of dendritic cell sarcoma

   • Ken-ichi Togashi
   • Hirohiko Shinohara
   • Manabu Isoda

   Case Report Pages: 377 - 381

10. Pitfalls of sutureless repair of a blow-out type left ventricular free wall rupture

    • Naoyuki Kimura
    • Koji Kawahito
    • Takashi Ino

    Case Report Pages: 382 - 385

11. Huge thrombus growing on an aortic prosthetic valve detected in acute coronary syndrome

    • Genta Chikazawa
    • Hideaki Nakano
    • Takafumi Tabuchi

    Case Report Pages: 386 - 388

12. Emergency operation for distal aortic arch aneurysm in Behcet’s disease

    • Kazuchika Suzuki
    • Teruhisa Kazui
    • Takayasu Suzuki

    Case Report Pages: 389 - 392

13. Oncocytic carcinoid of the lung

    • Katsuhiro Okuda
    • Masaaki Sano

    Case Report Pages: 393 - 396

14. Spontaneous disappearance of focal ground-glass opacity in the lung detected on the high-resolution computed tomography

    • Hiroyuki Sakurai
    • Kunio Takano
    • Masahiko Matsumoto

    Case Report Pages: 397 - 399

15. Temporary decompression of the right ventricle to assess the right ventricle-dependent coronary circulation in pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septum

    • Shigemitsu Iwai
    • Hidefumi Kishimoto
    • Hiroaki Kawata

    Case Report Pages: 400 - 403

16. Arterial air embolism during percutaneous pulmonary marking under computed tomography guidance

    • Koichi Sato
    • Katsutoshi Miyauchi
    • Kanji Kawachi

    Case Report Pages: 404 - 406

17. Emergent mitral valvuloplasty with an autologous pericardial patch in an octogenarian with active infective endocarditis

    • Shigefumi Matsuyama
    • Tetsuya Ueno
    • Kazuyuki Ikeda

    Case Report Pages: 407 - 410