Vol 4, No 5 (October 29, 2012): Journal of Thoracic Disease

News

Professor Nanshan Zhong joins International Advisory Board of The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
Editorial Team, Journal of Thoracic Disease
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Circulating Tumor Cells1

Circulating tumor cells as emerging tumor biomarkers in lung cancer
Renato Franco, Monica Cantile, Federica Zito Marino, Giuseppe Pirozzi
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Moving forward with circulating tumor cells and lung cancer
T.Jeroen.N. Hiltermann, Anthonie J. van der Wekken, Harry J.M. Groen
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Circulating DNA and NSCLC: old findings with new perspectives
Raquel Catarino, Ana Coelho, Rui Medeiros
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Circulating tumor cells as emerging tumor biomarkers in lung cancer
Edward H. Cho
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Detection methods of circulating tumor cells
Klaus Pantel, Catherine Alix-Panabières
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Circulating tumor-derived biomarkers in lung cancer
Aline Taenzer, Catherine Alix-Panabières, Harriet Wikman, Klaus Pantel
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Clinical utility of circulating tumor cells in non-small-cell lung carcinoma: are we there yet?
Milica Kontic, Miodrag Ognjanovic, Dragana Jovanovic, Simona Ognjanovic
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Biology and clinical relevance of circulating tumour cells
Louise Carter, Robert Metcalf, Fiona H Blackhall, Caroline Dive, Matthew G Krebs
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Circulating tumor cells in non-small cell lung carcinoma
Rogier Boshuizen, Peter Kuhn, Michel van den Heuvel
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Editorial

The first randomised controlled trial on minimally invasive esophagectomy (MIE) and the ongoing quest for greater evidence
Marc M. Dantoc, Michael R. Cox, Guy D. Eslick
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Randomised trial, Minimally Invasive Oesophagectomy versus open oesophagectomy for patients with resectable oesophageal cancer
Miguel A. Cuesta, Surya S. A. Y. Biere, Mark I. van Berge Henegouwen, Donald L. van der Peet
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Minimally invasive versus open oesophagectomy for patients with oesophageal cancer: a multicentre, open-label, randomised controlled trial
Omar Khan, Shiyam Nizar, Georgios Vasilikostas, Andrew Wan
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Original Article

Results of the introduction of a minimally invasive esophagectomy program in a tertiary referral center
Rachel L.G.M. Blom, Jean H.G. Klinkenbijl, Markus W. Hollmann, Jacques J.G.H.M. Bergman, Miguel A. Cuesta, Willem A. Bemelman, Olivier R.C. Busch, M.I. van Berge Henegouwen
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Quantified smoking status and non-small cell lung cancer stage at presentation: Analysis of a North Indian cohort and a systematic review of literature
Navneet Singh, Ashutosh N. Aggarwal, Dheeraj Gupta, Digambar Behera, Surinder K. Jindal
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Pulmonary multislice computed tomography findings in acute aortic dissection
Aslihan Semiz-Oysu, Aysegul Okur, Sinan Sahin
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Expression and prognostic relevance of tumor carcinoembryonic antigen in stage IB non-small cell lung cancer
Jian Wang, Yun Ma, Zhi-Hua Zhu, Dong-Rong Situ, Yi Hu, Tie-Hua Rong
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Brief Report

Fibrinous tumor of the pleura: an orphan disease lost in translation.
Paul Zarogoulidis, Vasiliki Draba, Nikolaos Machairiotis, Katerina Manika, Dimitrios Mikroulis, Kosmas Tsakiridis, Nikolaos Courcoutsakis, Ioannis Kioumis, Athanasios Zissimopoulos, Konstantinos Zarogoulidis
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Review Article

Combination of cryosurgery and Iodine-125 seeds brachytherapy for lung cancer
Lizhi Niu, Liang Zhou, Kecheng Xu, Feng Mu
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Case Report

A case of chronic expanding hematoma resulting in fatal hemoptysis
Yoshinobu Hata, Susumu Sakamoto, Nobuyuki Shiraga, Keita Sato, Fumitomo Sato, Hajime Otsuka, Hidenori Goto, Keigo Takagi, Yoshinori Watanabe
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Thymic carcinoma developing in a multilocular thymic cyst
Manphool Singhal, Anupam Lal, Radhika Srinivasan, Rajan Duggal, Niranjan Khandelwal
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Intralobar pulmonary sequestration in adults: three case reports
Casey Hertzenberg, Emmanuel Daon, Jeffrey Kramer
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Art of Operative Techniques

Thoracoscopic anatomic pulmonary resection
Jianxing He, Xin Xu
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ICC COLUMN: The Voice of the Patient2

Health or wealth?
Lawrence Grouse
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Erratum

Erratum
Editorial Team
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Disclosure:

1. The series “Circulating Tumor Cells” was commissioned by the Editorial office, Journal of Thoracic Disease without any sponsorship or funding.

2. 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.