First-year experience in new postgraduate clinical training system Shigeaki Aoyagi Editorial 01 September 2005 Pages: 463 - 464
Carpentier-Edwards pericardial aortic valve in middle-aged patients comparison with the St. Jude medical valve Yoshimasa SakamotoKazuhiro HashimotoTakayuki Abe Original Article 01 September 2005 Pages: 465 - 469
Self-expandable metallic stent for unresectable malignant strictures in the esophagus and cardia Shigeru LeeHarushi OsugiShigefumi Suehiro Original Article 01 September 2005 Pages: 470 - 476
Preoperative angiographie evaluation of the descending branch of the lateral femoral circumflex artery as a free graft in coronary artery bypass graft Yoichi YamashitaSachito FukudaYasuhiko Wanibuchi Original Article 01 September 2005 Pages: 477 - 480
Intraoperative prediction of compensatory sweating for thoracic sympathectomy Takeo FujitaMasayuki ManoNabuyoshi Shimizu Original Article 01 September 2005 Pages: 481 - 485
Normalization of cancer antigen 125 after mitral valve replacement in a patient with congestive heart failure due to mitral valve endocarditis Hiroki SugishitaHiroshi ImagawaFumiaki Shikata Case Report 01 September 2005 Pages: 486 - 489
Reoperation for composite graft infection after aortic root replacement Hirokazu MurayamaSoichi AsanoKatsuhiko Tatsuno Case Report 01 September 2005 Pages: 490 - 493
Pericardial reconstruction using a pedicle flap of the diaphragmatic central tendon Kiyokazu TamesueKyoko HaraTakehiro Nakajima Case Report 01 September 2005 Pages: 494 - 497
Ectopic pancreas in the anterior mediastinum Yamato TamuraMakoto TakahamaShigeki Taniguchi Case Report 01 September 2005 Pages: 498 - 501
Esophagectomy with three-field lymph node dissection for esophageal carcinoma with a nonrecurrent inferior laryngeal nerve Hiroshi SatoYasuhiro TsubosaToru Ugumori Case Report 01 September 2005 Pages: 502 - 504
Penetrating atherosclerotic ulcer in the juxtarenal abdominal aorta and coronary artery disease Iwao TaniguchiKeisuke MorimotoTetsuya Aoki Case Report 01 September 2005 Pages: 505 - 509
Pulmonary T2N0 adenocarcinoma with metastasis to a lymph node in the thoracic wall Motoyasu SagawaMakoto SugitaTsutomu Sakuma Case Report 01 September 2005 Pages: 510 - 512
Non-small cell lung cancer coexisting with pulmonary aspergilloma Hideki ItanoAkio AndouNobuyoshi Shimizu Case Report 01 September 2005 Pages: 513 - 516
Thoracic and cardiovascular surgery in Japan during 2003 Teruhisa KazuiHiromi WadaHiromasa Fujita Annual Report 01 September 2005 Pages: 517 - 536