1. Pulmonary metastasis: rationale for local treatments and techniques

   • Jun Nakajima

   Current Topics Review 22 September 2010 Pages: 445 - 451

2. Effects of sex, body mass index, and body size on the outcome of coronary artery bypass surgery: Iranian experience

   • Mohammad Hassan Nemati
   • Behrooz Astaneh

   Original Article 22 September 2010 Pages: 452 - 455

3. Effects of opium addiction on bleeding after coronary artery bypass graft surgery: report from Iran

   • Mohammad Hassan Nemati
   • Behrooz Astaneh
   • Gholamreza Safaee Ardekani

   Original Article 22 September 2010 Pages: 456 - 460

4. Diagnostic yield of preoperative computed tomography imaging and the importance of a clinical decision for lung cancer surgery

   • Shuichi Sato
   • Teruaki Koike
   • Akira Yokoyama

   Original Article 22 September 2010 Pages: 461 - 466

5. Experience of silicone gel sheets for patients with keloid scars after median sternotomy

   • Motoki Sakuraba
   • Nobumasa Takahashi
   • Kenji Suzuki

   Original Article 22 September 2010 Pages: 467 - 470

6. Successful surgical treatment with mitral valve replacement and coronary embolectomy in a patient with active infective endocarditis complicated by multiple septic embolisms involving cerebral arteries and the right coronary artery

   • Manabu Yamasaki
   • Sunao Watanabe
   • Kohei Kawazoe

   Case Report 22 September 2010 Pages: 471 - 476

7. Compartment syndrome of the thigh as a complication of anticoagulant therapy in a patient with a left ventricular assist device (Berlin Heart)

   • Rahul Kakkar
   • Matthew Ellis
   • Paul V. Fearon

   Case Report 22 September 2010 Pages: 477 - 479

8. Suprasternal approach for impending tracheo-innominate artery fistula

   • Yoshifumi Fujimoto
   • Keiichi Hirose
   • Kisaburo Sakamoto

   Case Report 22 September 2010 Pages: 480 - 484

9. Successful diagnosis of diaphragmatic solitary fibrous tumor of the pleura by preoperative ultrasonography

   • Hideki Ota
   • Hideki Kawai
   • Jun-ichi Ogawa

   Case Report 22 September 2010 Pages: 485 - 487

10. Primary thymic adenocarcinoma coexisting with type AB thymoma: a rare case with long-term survival

    • Yasuko Hosaka
    • Masanori Tsuchida
    • Jun-ichi Hayashi

    Case Report 22 September 2010 Pages: 488 - 492

11. Erratum to: Thoracic and cardiovascular surgery in Japan during 2008

    • Ryuzo Sakata
    • Yoshitaka Fujii
    • Hiroyuki Kuwano

    Erratum 22 September 2010 Pages: 493 - 493