1. Current strategies for spinal cord protection during thoracic and thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair

   • Hideyuki Shimizu
   • Ryohei Yozu

   Review Article 30 March 2011 Pages: 155 - 163

2. Video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy for lung cancer: the point at issue

   • Yoshinori Yamashita
   • Hiroaki Harada
   • Keizo Misumi

   Current Topics Review 30 March 2011 Pages: 164 - 168

3. Functional restoration of endothelial cells of the cryopreserved heart valve

   • Eiki Fujimoto
   • Masanori Yoshizumi
   • Tetsuya Kitagawa

   Original Article 30 March 2011 Pages: 169 - 174

4. VIO soft-coagulation system for major pulmonary resections: results in 68 patients with primary lung cancer

   • Akihiko Uchiyama
   • Kei Miyoshi
   • Katsuya Nakamura

   Original Article 30 March 2011 Pages: 175 - 178

5. Ascending aortic aneurysm associated with a quadricuspid aortic valve

   • Keiichiro Kasama
   • Hitoshi Ogino
   • Junjiro Kobayashi

   Case Report 30 March 2011 Pages: 179 - 180

6. Surgical removal of an intravascular ultrasonography catheter captured in a stent after percutaneous coronary intervention

   • Hiroya Minami
   • Tatsuro Asada
   • Masanobu Sato

   Case Report 30 March 2011 Pages: 181 - 183

7. Primary cardiac osteosarcoma with imaging that revealed no calcification

   • Wataru Hashimoto
   • Koji Hashizume
   • Kiyoyuki Eishi

   Case Report 30 March 2011 Pages: 184 - 186

8. Retrograde coronary sinus cardioplegia cannula placement under short-time circulatory arrest in surgery for a ruptured type A dissection with a previous coronary artery bypass

   • Tomonobu Abe
   • Toshimichi Nonaka
   • Hajime Sakurai

   Case Report 30 March 2011 Pages: 187 - 190

9. Successful early resection of cardiac papillary fibroelastomas

   • Hirotsugu Kurobe
   • Tamotsu Kanbara
   • Tetsuya Kitagawa

   Case Report 30 March 2011 Pages: 191 - 194

10. Port-access mitral valve replacement after surgical correction for Bland-White-Garland syndrome

    • Kosaku Nishigawa
    • Masahiko Kuinose
    • Genta Chikazawa

    Case Report 30 March 2011 Pages: 195 - 198

11. Dedifferentiated chondrosarcoma of the chest wall: reconstruction with polypropylene mesh using a transverse rectus abdominis myocutaneous flap

    • Masafumi Noda
    • Chiaki Endo
    • Takashi Kondo

    Case Report 30 March 2011 Pages: 199 - 201

12. Spontaneous left side pneumothorax and myocardial infarction: rare but potentially lethal coexistence that can frustrate clinicians

    • Dimos Karangelis
    • Georgios Tagarakis
    • Nikolaos Tsilimingas

    Case Report 30 March 2011 Pages: 202 - 204

13. Late-onset chylothorax after pulmonary resection for lung cancer

    • Maiko Tabu
    • Kazuhiro Imai
    • Ikuo Matsuzaki

    Case Report 30 March 2011 Pages: 205 - 208

14. Extrapulmonary hamartoma

    • Tetsuya Endo
    • Shunsuke Endo
    • Yasuhiro Tezuka

    Case Report 30 March 2011 Pages: 209 - 211

15. Sister Mary Joseph’s nodule that originated from lung adenocarcinoma

    • Tomohiro Haruki
    • Hiroshige Nakamura
    • Hisao Ito

    Case Report 30 March 2011 Pages: 212 - 215

16. Bronchial and cardiac ruptures due to blunt trauma

    • Takahiko Misao
    • Takeshi Yoshikawa
    • Mamoru Tago

    Case Report 30 March 2011 Pages: 216 - 219

17. Esophageal ruptures: triage using the systemic inflammatory response syndrome score

    • Kouichi Furugaki
    • Junichi Yoshida
    • Kenichi Matsuo

    Case Report 30 March 2011 Pages: 220 - 224

18. Unusual metastasis to all the digits of both hands in a patient previously operated on for esophageal carcinoma

    • Abdul Majeed Dar
    • Nadeem ul Nazeer Kawoosa
    • Mohammad Akbar Bhat

    Case Report 30 March 2011 Pages: 225 - 227