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  1. ERS International Congress 2023: highlights from the Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation Assembly
  2. How future surgery will benefit from SARS-COV-2-related measures: a SPIGC survey conveying the perspective of Italian surgeons
  3. Elastofibroma Dorsi: Points for Discussion and Future Direction
  4. Comparison of video-assisted pleurectomy/decortication surgery plus hyperthermic intrathoracic chemotherapy with VATS talc pleurodesis for the treatment of malignant pleural mesothelioma: A pilot study
  5. Optimism with caution for patients with advanced thymoma and thymic carcinoma
  6. Effects of a ground-glass opacity component on the recurrence and survival of pathological stage IA3 lung adenocarcinoma: a multi-institutional retrospective study
  7. Reducing the environmental impact of surgery on a global scale: systematic review and co-prioritization with healthcare workers in 132 countries
  8. Postoperative and Pathological Outcomes of CROSS and FLOT as Neoadjuvant Therapy for Esophageal and Junctional Adenocarcinoma
  9. Comparing the Effectiveness, Tolerability, and Acceptability of Heated Tobacco Products and Refillable Electronic Cigarettes for Cigarette Substitution (CEASEFIRE): Randomized Controlled Trial
  10. ERS International Congress 2022: highlights from the Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation Assembly
  11. Extension of lymph node dissection in the surgical treatment of esophageal and gastroesophageal junction cancer: seven questions and answers
  12. Improving the efficiency of identifying malignant pulmonary nodules before surgery via a combination of artificial intelligence CT image recognition and serum autoantibodies
  13. Elective surgery system strengthening: development, measurement, and validation of the surgical preparedness index across 1632 hospitals in 119 countries
  14. A glimpse into the role of debulking surgery and hyperthermic intrathoracic chemotherapy (HITHOC) in the management of malignant pleural mesothelioma
  15. The influence of anastomotic techniques on postoperative anastomotic complications: Results of the Oesophago-Gastric Anastomosis Audit
  16. Surgical management of parapneumonic empyema
  17. Global overview of the management of acute cholecystitis during the COVID-19 pandemic (CHOLECOVID study)
  18. ERS International Congress 2021: highlights from the Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation Assembly
  19. Salvage debulking surgery and hyperthermic intrathoracic chemotherapy for massive recurrent mesothelioma in the mediastinum
  20. Textbook outcome following oesophagectomy for cancer: international cohort study
  21. Primum non nocere: do we really need non-intubated thoracic surgery and robotic assisted thoracic surgery for tracheal airway resection and reconstruction?
  22. Searching for evidence of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) lung metastasectomy
  23. TNM classification for lung metastases
  24. Comparison of VATS Pleurectomy/Decortication Surgery plus Hyperthermic Intrathoracic Chemotherapy with VATS talc pleurodesis for the treatment of Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma: a randomized pilot study
  25. Death following pulmonary complications of surgery before and during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic
  26. Postoperative outcomes in oesophagectomy with trainee involvement
  27. The second modification of a dedicated staging system for lung metastases
  28. Impact of Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination on postoperative mortality in patients with perioperative SARS-CoV-2 infection
  29. Effect of COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns on planned cancer surgery for 15 tumour types in 61 countries: an international, prospective, cohort study
  30. Hyperthermic intrathoracic chemotherapy in thoracic surgical oncology: future challenges of an exciting procedure
  31. Pleural carcinosis caused by extrathoracic malignancies
  32. SARS‐CoV‐2 infection and venous thromboembolism after surgery: an international prospective cohort study
  33. Early outcomes and complications following cardiac surgery in patients testing positive for coronavirus disease 2019: An international cohort study
  34. Machine learning risk prediction of mortality for patients undergoing surgery with perioperative SARS-CoV-2: the COVIDSurg mortality score
  35. Ground glass opacities of the lung before, during and post COVID-19 pandemic
  36. Minimally Invasive Plication of the Diaphragm: A Single-Center Prospective Study
  37. Hyperthermic intrathoracic chemotherapy (HITHOC) should be included in the guidelines for malignant pleural mesothelioma
  38. Present and future of hyperthermic intrathoracic chemotherapy (HITHOC) in thoracic surgical oncology
  39. Mortality from esophagectomy for esophageal cancer across low, middle, and high-income countries: An international cohort study
  40. The Pulmonary Metastasectomy in Colorectal Cancer cohort study: Analysis of case selection, risk factors and survival in a prospective observational study of 512 patients
  41. Comparison of short-term outcomes from the International Oesophago-Gastric Anastomosis Audit (OGAA), the Esophagectomy Complications Consensus Group (ECCG), and the Dutch Upper Gastrointestinal Cancer Audit (DUCA)
  42. Which is the best approach for minimally invasive oesophagectomy?
  43. Elective Cancer Surgery in COVID-19–Free Surgical Pathways During the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic: An International, Multicenter, Comparative Cohort Study
  44. Anastomotic leak following oesophagectomy: research priorities from an international Delphi consensus study
  45. International consensus statement on robot-assisted minimally invasive esophagectomy (RAMIE)
  46. Preoperative nasopharyngeal swab testing and postoperative pulmonary complications in patients undergoing elective surgery during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic
  47. Delaying surgery for patients with a previous SARS-CoV-2 infection
  48. Late Breaking Abstract - Comparison of VATS debulking surgery and HITHOC vs VATS talc pleurodesis alone in malignant pleural mesothelioma: a pilot study
  49. Personalized approach for video-assisted thoracic surgery lung metastasectomy
  50. Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery
  51. Mortality and pulmonary complications in patients undergoing surgery with perioperative SARS-CoV-2 infection: an international cohort study
  52. Malignant pleural mesothelioma: between pragmatism and hope
  53. Imaging patterns of early stage lung cancer for the thoracic surgeon
  54. Making precision surgical strategies a reality: are we ready for a paradigm shift in thoracic surgical oncology?
  55. Mood disorders and outcomes in lung cancer patients undergoing surgery: a brief summery
  56. Risk factors for adverse events after elective colorectal surgery: beware of blood transfusions
  57. Reconstructive Surgery in Children with Down Syndrome: Bioethical Implications
  58. Perioperative chemoimmunotherapy in a patient with stage IIIB non-small cell lung cancer
  59. Nonintubated Uniportal Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery for Chest Infections
  60. Precision treatment of post pneumonectomy unilateral laryngeal paralysis due to cancer
  61. Precision surgery in lung metastasectomy
  62. Adenoid cystic carcinoma of trachea: long-term disease control after endoscopic surgery and radiotherapy
  63. Uniportal VATS: Comment on the consensus report from the uniportal VATS interest group (UVIG) of the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons
  64. Does cytoreduction surgery and hyperthermic intrathoracic chemotherapy prolong survival in patients with N0–N1 nonsmall cell lung cancer and malignant pleural effusion?
  65. International Variation in Surgical Practices in Units Performing Oesophagectomy for Oesophageal Cancer: A Unit Survey from the Oesophago-Gastric Anastomosis Audit (OGAA)
  66. Professor Tommaso Claudio Mineo (1945-2018)
  67. Global variation in anastomosis and end colostomy formation following left‐sided colorectal resection
  68. Pooled analysis of WHO Surgical Safety Checklist use and mortality after emergency laparotomy
  69. Uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery: twentieth anniversary
  70. Videomediastinoscopy
  71. Surgical site infection after gastrointestinal surgery in high-income, middle-income, and low-income countries: a prospective, international, multicentre cohort study
  72. Robotic resection of a middle mediastinal mass
  73. Uniportal, single incision VATS for the skeptics
  74. Single-institution experience of intensity-modulated radiotherapy for malignant pleural mesothelioma at University of Catania
  75. Occupational exposure to fluoro-edenite and prevalence of anti-nuclear autoantibodies
  76. Combined taxane-based chemotherapy and intensity-modulated radiotherapy with simultaneous integrated boost for gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma
  77. Fibulin-3 immunoexpression in malignant mesothelioma due to fluoro-edenite: a preliminary report
  78. 2016 Annual report from the Italian VATS Group
  79. Surgery for “advanced” lung and esophageal cancer: new horizons or false dawn?
  80. Ground glass opacities management in the lung cancer screening era
  81. Uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery, and the uni-surgeon: new words for the contemporary world
  82. 99mTechnetium and methylene blue guided pulmonary nodules resections: preliminary British experience
  83. Innovation in awake VATS
  84. Extended uniportal bilateral sympathectomy
  85. Parenchymal sparing resection for carcinoid of the right main bronchus
  86. Microlobectomy—where do we stand?
  87. Single incision extended video assisted transcervical thymectomy
  88. Various steps of video assisted transcervical thymectomy
  89. Is robotic surgery for NSCLC innovative enough?
  90. Massive relaxation of the diaphragm
  91. Video-assisted thoracic surgery mediastinal germ cell metastasis resection
  92. Subxiphoid port applied to robotic pulmonary lobectomies
  93. Debulking Surgery and Hyperthermic Chemotherapy for pleural mesothelioma: a pilot study.
  94. Debulking surgery and hyperthermic intrathoracic chemotherapy (HITHOC) for lung cancer
  95. Chylopericardium with symptoms of tamponade on the grounds of extensive neck vein thrombosis
  96. Awake uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery for complications after pneumonectomy
  97. Video-assisted thoracic surgery techniques for lung cancer: which is better?
  98. Intensity-modulated radiotherapy for relapsed malignant pleural mesothelioma
  99. Uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery or single-incision video-assisted thoracic surgery for lung resection: clarifying definitions
  100. Role, timing and technique of radiotherapy in pediatric pleuropulmonary synovial sarcoma
  101. Safety of video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy for non-small-cell lung cancer in a low-volume unit
  102. Early effects of fluoro-edenite: correlation between IL-18 serum levels and pleural and parenchymal abnormalities
  103. Lung cancer invading a single left pulmonary vein requiring extended pneumonectomy
  104. High risk of pleural plaques and parenchymal abnormalities in women living in Biancavilla (Italy)
  105. Video-assisted thoracic lobectomy for lung cancer in Italy: the ‘VATS Group’ Project
  106. VATS surgery for anatomical lung resection: a different approach for every surgeon
  107. Thoracic Surgery and Transplantation
  108. Robotic assisted lung resection needs further evidence
  109. Video assisted thoracic surgery
  110. Looking forward lung metastasectomy—do we need a staging system for lung metastases?
  111. uniportal VATS and new non surgical therapies can lead to the need of less surgeons
  112. Initial History of Uniportal Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery
  113. Management of recurrence after initial surgery for malignant pleural mesothelioma: a mini-review
  114. Preliminary experience with video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy for lung malignancies: general considerations moving toward standard practice
  115. Pleurectomy/decortication and hyperthermic intrapleural chemotherapy for malignant pleural mesothelioma: initial experience
  116. FBLN-3 as a biomarker of pleural plaques in workers occupationally exposed to carcinogenic fibers: a pilot study
  117. Follicular dendritic cell sarcoma of mediastinum: a key role of radiotherapy in a multidisciplinary approach
  118. Elastofibroma dorsi and the thoracic surgeon: experience with 13 patients
  119. Opening lecture to the Second Mediterranean Symposium in Thoracic Oncology
  120. Wider implications of video-assisted thoracic surgery versus open approach for lung metastasectomy
  121. Finding the evidence for pulmonary metastasectomy in colorectal cancer: the PulMicc trial
  122. Cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intrapleural chemotherapy for malignant pleural diseases: preliminary experience
  123. Mediterranean symposium in thoracic surgery: opening lectures
  124. Lung cancer and pleural mesothelioma
  125. Longitudinal and circumferential resection margin in adenocarcinoma of distal esophagus and cardia
  126. Flank pain caused by slipping rib syndrome
  127. Pulmonary Metastasectomy in Colorectal Cancer (PulMiCC International)
  128. A large aspergilloma
  129. Two cases of giant solitary fibrous tumor of the pleura: a not-so-rare tumor?
  130. Lung-sparing approach for an intrapulmonary bronchogenic cyst involving the right upper and middle lobes
  131. Interpretation of a Manometric Trace of the Upper Esophageal Sphincter
  132. Smartphones or Tablets for a Better Communication and Education Between Residents and Consultant in a Teaching Hospital
  133. Persistent hyperparathyroidism owing to a giant parathyroid adenoma in posterior mediastinum
  134. An unexpected difficult intubation in a patient with myasthenia gravis undergoing video-assisted transcervical thymectomy
  135. Randomized Controlled Trial of Pulmonary Metastasectomy in Colorectal Cancer: PulMiCC International Is Open in Italy
  136. Clinico-pathological findings in stage-I primary spontaneous pneumothorax: analysis of 19 cases and literature review
  137. Minimal access anterior mediastinotomy
  138. Bronchial cast hiding a lung cancer
  139. A hybrid single-trocar VATS technique for extracorporeal wedge biopsy of the lingula in patients with diffuse lung disease
  140. Episodic Abdominal and Chest Pain in a Young Adult
  141. Prognostic value of p53 and Ki67 expression in fiberoptic bronchial biopsies of patients with non small cell lung cancer
  142. Reoperation for failed reflux surgery
  143. Induction Therapy for Resectable Esophageal Cancer
  144. Extending Surgery for Pulmonary Metastasectomy: What Are the Limits?
  145. Cervico-mediastinal goiter: is telescopic exploration of the mediastinum (video mediastinoscopy) useful?☆
  146. An unusual clinical case of haemoptysis in spontaneous pneumothorax: blood clots within emphysematous bulla
  147. Pulmonary Metastasectomy: A Survey of Current Practice Amongst Members of the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons
  148. A surgeon's case volume of oesophagectomy for cancer strongly influences the operative mortality rate
  149. Management of concomitant congenital tracheo-oesophageal fistula and cancer of the oesophago–gastric junction in an adult
  150. Pneumothorax and mediastinal emphysema due to an air leak from a bulla in an azygos lobe☆
  151. Efficacy and safety of single-trocar technique for minimally invasive surgery of the chest in the treatment of noncomplex pleural disease
  152. The place of Belsey Mark IV fundoplication in the era of laparoscopic surgery☆
  153. Right Intraventricular Hydatid Cyst of the Heart
  154. Four-Step Local Anesthesia and Sedation for Thoracoscopic Diagnosis and Management of Pleural Diseases
  155. Pulmonary vein gas analysis for assessing donor lung function
  156. A single-trocar technique for minimally invasive surgery of the chest
  157. Thoracoscopic surgery, video-thoracoscopic surgery, or VATS: a confusion in definition
  158. Pharyngo-esophageal dysphagia as a clinical presentation of esophageal achalasia
  159. 2000 Scientific Session of the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 29 March–1 April 2000
  160. Clinical features and oesophageal motility in patients with tight fundoplication
  161. Villous Adenocarcinoma of the Duodenum Invading the Ampulla of Vater: Case Report and Review of Literature
  162. Pharyngo-oesophageal dysphagia: surgery based on clinical and manometric data
  163. Diffuse colonic lipomatosis with giant hypertrophy of the epiploic appendices and diverticulosis of the colon
  164. Esophageal Carcinoma with Airway Invasion
  165. Pathophysiologic basis for operation on Zenker's diverticulum
  166. Early evaluation and therapy for caustic esophageal injury