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Editorial
The next challenge for VATS lobectomy surgeons
Spontaneous esophageal rupture as the underlying cause of pneumothorax: early recognition is crucial
Big data and clinical research: perspective from a clinician
Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration: a maturing technique
Original Article
The lung cancer epidemic in Spanish women: an analysis of mortality rates over a 37-year period
Treatment of giant emphysamous bulla with endobronchial valves in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a case series
Effect of a neutrophil elastase inhibitor on ventilator-induced lung injury in rats
Cost and effectiveness of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for clinical stage I non-small cell lung cancer: a population-based analysis
Predictive risk factors for lymph node metastasis in patients with small size non-small cell lung cancer
The protective effects of glutamine in a rat model of ventilator-induced lung injury
Lung cancer staging: the value of PET depends on the clinical setting
Five-year epidemiological survey of valvular heart disease: changes in morbidity, etiological spectrum and management in a cardiovascular center of Southern China
Rapid pleurodesis is an outpatient alternative in patients with malignant pleural effusions: a prospective randomized controlled trial
Overnight fluid shifts in subjects with and without obstructive sleep apnea
The changes of vaccinia related kinase 1 in grafted heart after rat heart transplantation
Uniportal video assisted thoracoscopic lobectomy: primary experience from an Eastern center
Differences in the clinical and radiological characteristics of lunginvolved toxocariasis between toxocariasis with eosinophilia and those without eosinophilia
Antihypertensive therapy with nicardipine for patients with aortic disease is associated with more esmolol usage than urapidil
In vitro study of coronary flow occlusion in transcatheter aortic valve implantation
Adrenergic regulation of the rapid component of delayed rectifier K+ currents in guinea pig cardiomyocytes
Epidemiological and viral genome characteristics of the first human H7N9 influenza infection in Guangdong Province, China
Sodium tanshinone IIA silate as an add-on therapy in patients with unstable angina pectoris
Lung protective effects of budesonide nebulization during perioperative period of thoracolumbar fusion
Brief Report
Chemotherapy with paclitaxel plus carboplatin for relapsed advanced thymic carcinoma
Visualized Surgery
Video-assisted thoracoscopic left upper lobe sleeve lobectomy combined with pulmonary arterioplasty via two-port approach
Total thoracoscopic combined lingulectomy and pericardial cystectomy
Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery right upper posterior segmentectomywith systemic mediastinal lymph node dissection
Video-assisted thoracoscopic left upper lobe apical trisegmentectomy with the Harmonic scalpel
Left lower sleeve lobectomy and systematic lymph node dissection by complete video-assisted thoracic surgery
Video-assisted thoracic surgery right sleeve lobectomy
Uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic left basilar segmentectomy
Video-assisted thoracic surgery left S1+2+3 segmentectomy for lung cancer
Uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery right upper lobectomy with systematic lymphadenectomy in a semiprone position
Unidirectionally progressive resection of left upper pulmonary lobe under video-assisted thoracoscopy
GCTAB Column1
Video-assisted thoracic surgery left upper lobectomy with systematic lymphadenectomy
Autogenous rib graft for reconstruction of sternal defects
VATS right upper lobectomy
Thoracoscopic left upper lobectomy with systematic lymph nodes dissection under left pulmonary artery clamping
Thoracoscopic resection of functional posterior mediastinal paraganglioma: a case report
Optimization of lymph node dissection with VATS right upper lobectomy
Review Article
Nonintubated anesthesia for thoracic surgery
Statistic Corner2
Basic statistics (the fundamental concepts)
A synopsis of resampling techniques
Meet the Professor
Professor I-wen Wang: better life supported through mechanical circulatory devices-a dream within reach
Professor Mario Cazzola: prospect of the COPD medicine
Opinion
Buyer beware: understanding the assumptions behind health economic assessments in personalized cancer care
Case Report
Pyrexia in patients with uncontrolled systemic hypertension: could they have an aortic dissection?
Primary synovial sarcoma of the lung: can haemothorax be the first manifestation?
Palliative stent graft placement combined with subsequent open surgery for retrograde ascending dissection intra-thoracic endovascular aortic repair
Induced airway obstruction under extracorporeal membrane oxygenation during treatment of life-threatening massive hemoptysis due to severe blunt chest trauma
Unexpectedly long intravenous and intracardiac extension of a small-sized pulmonary pleomorphic carcinoma
Beware of arteria lusoria during lymph node dissection of the right paratracheal fossa for lung cancer surgery
Fatal interstitial lung disease associated with icotinib
Primary malignant pericardial mesothelioma—a rare cause of superior vena cava thrombosis and constrictive pericarditis
IgG4-related lung disease with atypical CT imaging: a case report
Rare and persistent Rhodococcus equi infection in a diffuse large B cell lymphoma patient: case report and review of the literature
Good neurological recovery after rescue thrombolysis of presumed pulmonary embolism despite prior 100 minutes CPR
The pure distal left main bronchial sleeve resection with total lung parenchymal preservation: report of two cases and literature review
Letter to the Editor
Pleural fluid is surrogate for time
ICC COLUMN: The Voice of the Patient3
3-1-5 implementation for 2015
News
Panhellenic Congress News: innovation in the academic world
Between You and Me4
Keep calm in an emergency: an unexpected case with poisoning
Oxygen
Erratum
CT signs, patterns and differential diagnosis of solitary fibrous tumors of the pleura: Erratum
Disclosure:
1. The series “GCTAB Column” was commissioned by the Editorial office, Journal of Thoracic Disease and funded by the educational grants from the Greater China Thoracoscopic Advisory Board (GCTAB).
2. The series “Statistics Corner” was commissioned by the Editorial office, Journal of Thoracic Disease without any sponsorship or funding. Luca Bertolaccini served as the unpaid Guest Editor for the series.
3. The series “ICC COLUMN: The Voice of the Patient” was commissioned by the Editorial office, Journal of Thoracic Disease without any sponsorship or funding. Lawrence Grouse served as the unpaid Guest Editor for the series.
4. The series “Between You and Me” was commissioned by the Editorial office, Journal of Thoracic Disease without any sponsorship or funding.
