Prof. Hitoshi Fujiwara: experience in performing lymph node dissection

The 7^th Zhongshan Minimally Invasive Forum was successfully held in Zhongshan Hospital, Shanghai Fudan University, China from May 5^th to May 7^th. This forum focused on the hop topics in thoracic surgery, especially in lung dissection, uniportal thoracic surgery and minimally invasive esophageal surgery etc. During this conference, Prof. Hitoshi Fujiwara gave a great presentation on: “lymph node dissection through mediastinosopy for esophageal cancer”. The editorial team of Journal of Thoracic Disease (JTD) had the great honor to have an interview with Prof. Fujiwara at the second day of conference (Figure 1).