00 preface_Topics in Thoracic Surgery......Page 1
01Preoperative Evaluation of Patients
for Thoracic Surgery......Page 13
02Pulmonary Resection for Lung Cancer in
Patients with Liver Cirrhosis......Page 29
03The Effect of One Lung Ventilation
on Intrapulmonary Shunt During
Different Anesthetic Techniques......Page 45
04Thoracic Critical Care......Page 71
05Standardized Monitoring of Post-Operative
Morbidity and Mortality for the Evaluation of
Thoracic Surgical Quality......Page 79
06Post-Thoracotomy Pain Syndrome......Page 93
07Chronic Thromboembolic
Pulmonary Hypertension:
Effects of Pulmonary Endarterectomy......Page 107
08Chest Wall Deformities: An Overview on
Classification and Surgical Options......Page 129
09Pectus Excavatum: A Historical Perspective and
a New Metal-Free Procedure......Page 149
10Surgical Management of
Primary Upper Limb Hyperhidrosis โ A Review......Page 177
11The Evolution of VATS Lobectomy......Page 193
12The Era of VATS Lobectomy......Page 223
13Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery
Major Pulmonary Resections......Page 235
14Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery (VATS)
Systematic Mediastinal Nodal Dissection......Page 259
15Pancoast Tumors:
Surgical Approaches and Techniques......Page 285
16Stage I Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer:
Recurrence Patterns,
Prognostic Factors and Survival......Page 297
17Surgical Treatment of Bronchiectasis......Page 305
18Role of Thoracomyoplasty Procedures in
Modern Surgery for Intrathoracic Suppurations......Page 321
19Lung Volume Reduction Surgery......Page 339
20Endoscopic Lung Volume
Reduction for Emphysema......Page 357
21Mediastinal Parathyroidectomy: Preoperative
Management of Hyperparathyroidism......Page 375
22Pulmonary Transplantation and
Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury......Page 383
23Superior Vena Cava Syndrome......Page 407
24Compensatory Lung Growth
After Pneumonectomy......Page 421
25Pathophysiology of Extravascular Water in the
Pleural Cavity and in the Lung Interstitium
After Lung Thoracic Surgery......Page 439
26The Role of PET-CT in the Clinical Management
of Oesophageal Cancer......Page 453
27Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in the
Transition of Emergent Thoracic Surgery......Page 473