1. Surgical treatment for aortic periannular abscess/pseudoaneurysm caused by infective endocarditis

   • Kenji Okada
   • Yutaka Okita

   Current Topics Review Article 17 November 2012 Pages: 175 - 181

   

2. A look at recent improvements in the durability of tissue valves

   • Takahiro Nishida
   • Ryuji Tominaga

   Current Topics Review Article 24 January 2013 Pages: 182 - 190

3. Aortic arch replacement for degenerative aneurysms: advances during the last decade

   • Norihiko Shiiya

   Current Topics Review Article 20 October 2012 Pages: 191 - 196

4. Cadaveric donor lobar lung transplantation for patients on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation as bridge-to-transplant

   • Yoshiya Toyoda

   Current Topics Review Article 02 March 2013 Pages: 197 - 200

5. President’s address of the 65th annual scientific meeting of the Japanese Association for Thoracic Surgery: challenges for advanced esophageal cancer

   • Hiromasa Fujita

   Current Topics Review Article 13 February 2013 Pages: 201 - 207

   

6. Registry of the Japanese society of lung and heart–lung transplantation: the official Japanese lung transplantation report 2012

   • Takahiro Oto
   • Yoshinori Okada
   • The Japanese Society of Lung and Heart–Lung Transplantation

   Registry Report 26 February 2013 Pages: 208 - 211

   

7. Surgical management of traumatic rupture of aortic isthmus: a 25-year experience

   • Seyed Mohsen Mirhosseini
   • Shadi Asadollahi
   • Mohammad Fakhri

   Original Article 25 December 2012 Pages: 212 - 217

8. LeGoo polymer injection into hydatid cyst would eliminate intraoperative spillage of scolices

   • Fadhil Al-Amran
   • Hayder M. Abdulnabi

   Original Article 16 February 2013 Pages: 218 - 222

   

9. Transaortic edge-to-edge mitral valve repair and left ventricular myectomy

   • Yasushi Tsutsumi
   • Satoshi Numata
   • Hirokazu Ohashi

   Case Report 01 August 2012 Pages: 223 - 225

   

10. Modified reduction aortoplasty with external reinforcement of the ascending aortic aneurysm caused by giant cell arteritis treated as polymyalgia rheumatica

    • Jun Hirota
    • Syunichi Kondo
    • Shigebumi Suzuki

    Case Report 15 August 2012 Pages: 226 - 230

    

11. Recurrent pleural effusion in yellow nail syndrome successfully treated with video-assisted thoracic surgery: comparison of two surgical strategies in two cases

    • Damian Balmforth
    • Andrea Bille
    • Tom Routledge

    Case Report 05 July 2012 Pages: 231 - 233

    

12. Pulmonary inflammatory pseudotumor observed by bronchoscopy and resected using video-assisted thoracic surgery

    • Yusuke Nakamura
    • Masayuki Iwazaki
    • Akihiko Shimada

    Case Report 05 July 2012 Pages: 234 - 237