Vol 11, Supplement 15 (September 29, 2019): Journal of Thoracic Disease

Editorial

Impact of performance status and age on osimertinib efficacy in patients with EGFR-mutant T790M-positive non-small-cell lung cancer
Giuseppe Lamberti, Elisa Andrini, Biagio Ricciuti
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
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:S1831-S1834
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PDA clipping by video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery
Koh Takeuchi
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S1835-S1836
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Relationship between performance status or younger age and osimertinib therapy in T790M-positive NSCLC: are the available data convincing?
Umberto Malapelle, Antonio Rossi, Emilio Bria
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S1837-S1840
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Bridging the gap: how do we improve long-term survival of locally-advanced esophageal cancer patients?
Andrew E. Giles, Biniam Kidane
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S1841-S1843
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Respecting your elders: osimertinib demonstrates preferential activity in elderly patients with T790M positive non-small cell lung cancers
Hiromichi Ebi, Sosipatros Boikos, Anthony C. Faber
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S1844-S1846
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Impact of clinical features on the efficacy of osimertinib treatment in epidermal growth factor receptor mutant non-small cell lung cancer patients with acquired resistance to tyrosine kinase inhibitors due to T790M mutation
Chong-Kin Liam, Mau-Ern Poh, Yong-Sheng Liam
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S1847-S1851
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Does osimertinib treatment discriminate young patients?
Cheng Ji, Chongke Zhong, Shi-Yong Sun
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S1852-S1854
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Adjuvant chemotherapy for poor pathologic response after pre-operative chemoradiation in esophageal cancer: infeasible and illogical
Megan Greally, Geoffrey Y. Ku
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S1855-S1860
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Devil is in the detail—how to critically analyze studies designed to assess effectiveness of topical antibiotics in preventing sternal wound infections?
Michał Pasierski, Kamil Zieliński, Giuseppe Maria Raffa, Harold Lazar, Roberto Lorusso, Piotr Suwalski, Mariusz Kowalewski
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S1861-S1864
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Editorial Commentary

Autopsy and clinical discrepancies in patients undergoing extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: a case series—a step towards understanding “Why”?
Chadi Aludaat, Matthieu Sarsam, Fabien Doguet, Jean-Marc Baste
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S1865-S1868
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Randomized phase II trial reporting overall survival advantage by adding local consolidative therapy to systemic therapy for oligometastatic non-small cell lung cancer: another step forward on the long road of evidence-based medicine for oligometastatic disease
Paul Windisch, Matthias Guckenberger
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S1869-S1873
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Optimal postoperative surveillance strategy in patients undergoing neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy followed by surgery for esophageal carcinoma
Kotaro Sugawara, Hiroharu Yamashita, Yasuyuki Seto
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S1874-S1876
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Hyperprogressive disease with immunotherapy: new directions
Sally C. M. Lau, Natasha B. Leighl
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S1877-S1880
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Spread through air spaces in non-small cell lung cancer
Yuka Kozuma, Gouji Toyokawa, Yuichi Yamada, Fumihiro Shoji, Koji Yamazaki, Yoshinao Oda, Sadanori Takeo
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S1881-S1884
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Is no drain after thoracoscopic major resection for cancer acceptable?
Katsuhiro Okuda, Katsuhiko Endo, Keisuke Yokota, Tsutomu Tatematsu, Ryoichi Nakanishi
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S1885-S1887
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Expanding the pool: the use of hepatitis C RNA positive organs in lung transplantation
Ernest G. Chan, Patrick G. Chan, Pablo G. Sanchez
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S1888-S1890
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Preoperative variables for predicting prolonged air leak following pulmonary resection
Yasushi Shintani, Soichiro Funaki, Naoko Ose, Takashi Kanou, Eriko Fukui, Masato Minami
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S1891-S1893
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Challenge for establishment of international benchmarks for complications associated with esophagectomy
Masaaki Iwatsuki, Naoya Yoshida, Hideo Baba
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S1894-S1896
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Safety of perioperative low dose aspirin therapy in major lung resection
Woo Sik Yu, Chang Young Lee
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S1897-S1899
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No drain policy for “ultimate” enhanced recovery after surgery
Takuro Miyazaki, Takeshi Nagayasu
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S1900-S1902
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Scar modification for polymorphic ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation: hope beyond trigger ablation?
Hongtao Liao, Roderick Tung
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S1903-S1905
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Blood tumor mutational burden: are we ready for clinical implementation?
Claude Van Campenhout, Bárbara Meléndez, Myriam Remmelink, Isabelle Salmon, Nicky D’Haene
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S1906-S1908
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Local consolidative therapy in metastatic non-small cell lung cancer
Gunj Patel, Balazs Halmos, Haiying Cheng, Nitin Ohri
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S1909-S1912
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Preoperative treatment of anemia—could an ultra-short-term multimodal approach be beneficial for patients undergoing lung surgery?
Sebastian Heinrich, Torsten Loop
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S1913-S1915
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Optimal lung cancer screening intervals following a negative low-dose computed tomography result
Monica E. Reyes, Matthew B. Schabath
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S1916-S1918
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The inadvertent compounding of misconceptions regarding the surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation in mitral valve patients
James L. Cox, Patrick M. McCarthy
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S1919-S1922
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Potential advantage of digital drainage systems using a low-suction approach after video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery lobectomy
Hiran C. Fernando
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S1923-S1924
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The prospective database on thymic epithelial tumours from the European Continent
Masatsugu Hamaji, So Miyahara, Hyun-Sung Lee, Bryan M. Burt
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S1925-S1926
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Increasing T stage is associated with the need for more extensive lymph node assessment in clinical stage I non-small cell lung cancer
Andrew Brownlee, Seth B. Krantz
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S1927-S1929
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What you do not know, you do not recognize…and you do not improve future patient care…particularly in extracorporeal life support (ECLS) patients
Roberto Lorusso, Domenico Corradi
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S1930-S1934
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Hybrid minimally invasive esophagectomy for esophageal cancer: less is more
Pieter Christiaan van der Sluis, Peter Philipp Grimminger, Richard van Hillegersberg, Jelle Piet-Hein Ruurda
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S1935-S1937
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Predicting spread through air spaces (STAS) preoperatively: can imaging help?
Rocio Perez Johnston, Katsura Emoto, Joseph Dux, William D. Travis, Prasad S. Adusumilli
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S1938-S1941
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Expanding the donor pool for lung transplantation using HCV-positive donors
Hrishikesh S. Kulkarni, Kevin M. Korenblat, Daniel Kreisel
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S1942-S1946
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Role of chest tube drainage in physical function after thoracoscopic lung resection
Pengfei Li, Shuangjiang Li, Guowei Che
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S1947-S1950
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Hybrid esophagectomy: the best of both worlds
Jonathan Cools-Lartigue, Lorenzo Ferri
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S1951-S1953
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Minimally invasive esophagectomy—behind patient-centered learning curves
Nikhil Panda, Christopher R. Morse
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S1954-S1956
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PEEP titration guided by transpulmonary pressure: lessons from a negative trial
Fernando Suarez-Sipmann, Carlos Ferrando, Jesús Villar
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S1957-S1962
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KEYNOTE-042 and the role for single agent pembrolizumab in patients with PD-L1 tumor proportion score 1–49%
Daniel Morgensztern
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S1963-S1965
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Transcatheter edge-to-edge mitral valve repair in functional mitral regurgitation: patient selection according to MITRA-FR and COAPT
Martin Orban, Christian Hagl, Jörg Hausleiter
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S1966-S1968
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Lactate guided resuscitation—nothing is more dangerous than conscientious foolishness
Paul E. Marik
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S1969-S1972
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A new approach to predicting risk for N2 disease in non-small cell lung cancer
Roy H. Decker, Justin D. Blasberg
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S1973-S1975
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Prolonged air leak after pulmonary lobectomy
Francesco Petrella, Lorenzo Spaggiari
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S1976-S1978
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What did the first meta-analysis of tumor spread through air spaces (STAS) bring to light?
Hironori Uruga, Takeshi Fujii, Atsushi Miyamoto, Takaya Hisashi
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S1979-S1981
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Prolonged air leaks after vats lobectomy: do we need another risk score?
Angelo Carretta
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S1982-S1985
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Radical consolidative treatments a hope for patients with oligometastatic non-small cell lung cancer
Marcelo F. Jimenez, Maria T. Gomez-Hernandez
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S1986-S1989
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Intratumoral lymph vessel invasion as a predictive risk factor for nodal metastasis in non-small cell lung cancer: should L-1 status obligate adjuvant chemotherapy?
Kimberly J. Song, Raja M. Flores
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S1990-S1991
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Demographic ageing and its influence on current lung transplant practice
Antonio Alvarez, Paula Moreno
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S1992-S1994
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Searching for an arrow hitting two targets: the time to evaluate long-term outcomes of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery lobectomy for early-stage lung cancer
Tomohito Saito, Tomohiro Murakawa
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
(Suppl 15)
:S1995-S1998
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Less is more: the benefits of low suction for digital pleural drainage devices after pulmonary resection
Stephen Donald Gowing, Virginia Ferreira Resende, Sebastien Gilbert
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S1999-S2001
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Importance of intraoperative fluid management
Hisashi Iwata
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S2002-S2004
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Thymoma: does tumor size matter?
Arya Amini, Chad G. Rusthoven
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S2005-S2007
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Expanding the knowledge of oligometastatic disease—but uncertainties remain significant
Joachim Pfannschmidt
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S2008-S2011
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Positive-end expiratory pressure titration and transpulmonary pressure: the EPVENT 2 trial
Emanuele Turbil, Louis Marie Galerneau, Nicolas Terzi, Carole Schwebel, Laurent Argaud, Claude Guérin
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S2012-S2017
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Pancreatic PCSK9 and its involvement in diabetes
Maaike Kockx, Leonard Kritharides
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S2018-S2022
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The radical approach to the oligometastatic not small cell lung cancer patient: which? how? when? where?
Luca Bertolaccini, Lorenzo Spaggiari
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
(Suppl 15)
:S2023-S2025
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Letter to the Editor

Chest ultrasound: enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) best friend in general thoracic surgery
Marco Chiappetta, Amedeo Iaffaldano, Leonardo Petracca Ciavarella, Elisa Meacci, Stefano Margaritora
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S2026-S2027
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Is chest ultrasonography an essential tool for the modern thoracic surgeon?
Marco Chiappetta, Edoardo Zanfrini, Leonardo Petracca Ciavarella, Elisa Meacci, Stefano Margaritora
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S2028-S2029
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Chest ultrasound versatility in routinary to complicated cases: our perspective
Marco Chiappetta, Gianmaria Ferretti, Maria Teresa Congedo, Maria Letizia Vita, Stefano Margaritora
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S2030-S2031
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Sex differences in the development of upper airway morphology: is this the new kid on the block?
Ayako Inoshita, Takatoshi Kasai, Rina Matsuoka, Naoko Sata, Nanako Shiroshita, Fusae Kawana, Mitsue Kato, Katsuhisa Ikeda
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
(Suppl 15)
:S2032-S2033
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Emphysema assessment for personalized immunotherapy response prediction in lung cancer patients
Dimitra Kerdidani, Sophia Magkouta, Maria Tsoumakidou
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S2034-S2035
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Albumin to fibrinogen ratio and fibrinogen to pre-albumin ratio are economical, simple and promising prognostic factors for solid malignancy
Shu-Qi Li, Xia-Hong You, Fan Sun, Zi-Jin Xia, Zhou Fang, Wei Wang, Yao Li, Xiao-Zhong Wang, Hou-Qun Ying
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
(Suppl 15)
:S2036-S2038
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Chest ultrasound in post-operative management: the needed to rethink our perspective?
Marco Chiappetta, Luca Pogliani, Dania Nachira, Maria Letizia Vita, Stefano Margaritora
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
(Suppl 15)
:S2039-S2040
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Pathologic complete response is not equivalent to cure in esophageal cancer
Rebecca Carr, Daniela Molena
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S2041-S2042
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Heterogeneity of stage IIIA leads to difficulty in determining optimal treatment
Min P. Kim, Stephen G. Swisher
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
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:S2043-S2045
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The tightrope walk between temporary and permanent mechanical circulatory support
L. Christian Napp, Maximilian Halbe, Federico Pappalardo
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2019;
11
(Suppl 15)
:S2046-S2047
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Disclosure:

The supplement was commissioned by the Editorial office, Journal of Thoracic Disease without any sponsorship or funding.