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  1. Highlights of the ERS Congress 2025 from the ECM perspective – Assembly 8: Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation
  2. Surgical interventions for pleural infection
  3. The utility of a rigid bronchoscope
  4. Ground-Glass Opacity Component as a Protective Factor for Patients With Invasive Adenocarcinoma ≤3 cm With Micropapillary or Solid Pathological Patterns
  5. Implementation of Uniportal Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery to Treat Pericardial Effusion: A Review
  6. ERS Congress 2024: highlights from the Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation Assembly
  7. Lung transplantation in a patient with a true tracheal bronchus
  8. Enhancing Thoracic Surgery with AI: A Review of Current Practices and Emerging Trends
  9. Lung volume reduction: surgeryversusendobronchial valves
  10. Further insights into MARS 2
  11. Editorial: Recent advances in surgical management of NSCLC
  12. A prognostic model for use before elective surgery to estimate the risk of postoperative pulmonary complications (GSU-Pulmonary Score): a development and validation study in three international cohorts
  13. Recent Advancements in Minimally Invasive Surgery for Early Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Narrative Review
  14. Predictors of anastomotic leak and conduit necrosis after oesophagectomy: Results from the oesophago-gastric anastomosis audit (OGAA)
  15. Association between multimorbidity and postoperative mortality in patients undergoing major surgery: a prospective study in 29 countries across Europe
  16. Recent Advancements in Minimally Invasive Surgery for Early-Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Narrative Review
  17. Impact of postoperative cardiovascular complications on 30‐day mortality after major abdominal surgery: an international prospective cohort study
  18. Novel Textbook Outcomes following emergency laparotomy: Delphi exercise
  19. ERS International Congress 2023: highlights from the Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation Assembly
  20. How future surgery will benefit from SARS-COV-2-related measures: a SPIGC survey conveying the perspective of Italian surgeons
  21. Elastofibroma Dorsi: Points for Discussion and Future Direction
  22. 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
  23. Optimism with caution for patients with advanced thymoma and thymic carcinoma
  24. Effects of a ground-glass opacity component on the recurrence and survival of pathological stage IA3 lung adenocarcinoma: a multi-institutional retrospective study
  25. Reducing the environmental impact of surgery on a global scale: systematic review and co-prioritization with healthcare workers in 132 countries
  26. Postoperative and Pathological Outcomes of CROSS and FLOT as Neoadjuvant Therapy for Esophageal and Junctional Adenocarcinoma
  27. Comparing the Effectiveness, Tolerability, and Acceptability of Heated Tobacco Products and Refillable Electronic Cigarettes for Cigarette Substitution (CEASEFIRE): Randomized Controlled Trial
  28. ERS International Congress 2022: highlights from the Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation Assembly
  29. Extension of lymph node dissection in the surgical treatment of esophageal and gastroesophageal junction cancer: seven questions and answers
  30. Improving the efficiency of identifying malignant pulmonary nodules before surgery via a combination of artificial intelligence CT image recognition and serum autoantibodies
  31. Elective surgery system strengthening: development, measurement, and validation of the surgical preparedness index across 1632 hospitals in 119 countries
  32. A glimpse into the role of debulking surgery and hyperthermic intrathoracic chemotherapy (HITHOC) in the management of malignant pleural mesothelioma
  33. The influence of anastomotic techniques on postoperative anastomotic complications: Results of the Oesophago-Gastric Anastomosis Audit
  34. Surgical management of parapneumonic empyema
  35. Global overview of the management of acute cholecystitis during the COVID-19 pandemic (CHOLECOVID study)
  36. ERS International Congress 2021: highlights from the Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation Assembly
  37. Salvage debulking surgery and hyperthermic intrathoracic chemotherapy for massive recurrent mesothelioma in the mediastinum
  38. Textbook outcome following oesophagectomy for cancer: international cohort study
  39. Primum non nocere: do we really need non-intubated thoracic surgery and robotic assisted thoracic surgery for tracheal airway resection and reconstruction?
  40. Searching for evidence of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) lung metastasectomy
  41. TNM classification for lung metastases
  42. 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
  43. Death following pulmonary complications of surgery before and during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic
  44. Postoperative outcomes in oesophagectomy with trainee involvement
  45. The second modification of a dedicated staging system for lung metastases
  46. Impact of Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination on postoperative mortality in patients with perioperative SARS-CoV-2 infection
  47. Effect of COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns on planned cancer surgery for 15 tumour types in 61 countries: an international, prospective, cohort study
  48. Hyperthermic intrathoracic chemotherapy in thoracic surgical oncology: future challenges of an exciting procedure
  49. Pleural carcinosis caused by extrathoracic malignancies
  50. SARS‐CoV‐2 infection and venous thromboembolism after surgery: an international prospective cohort study
  51. Effects of pre‐operative isolation on postoperative pulmonary complications after elective surgery: an international prospective cohort study
  52. Early outcomes and complications following cardiac surgery in patients testing positive for coronavirus disease 2019: An international cohort study
  53. Machine learning risk prediction of mortality for patients undergoing surgery with perioperative SARS-CoV-2: the COVIDSurg mortality score
  54. Ground glass opacities of the lung before, during and post COVID-19 pandemic
  55. Minimally Invasive Plication of the Diaphragm: A Single-Center Prospective Study
  56. Hyperthermic intrathoracic chemotherapy (HITHOC) should be included in the guidelines for malignant pleural mesothelioma
  57. Present and future of hyperthermic intrathoracic chemotherapy (HITHOC) in thoracic surgical oncology
  58. Mortality from esophagectomy for esophageal cancer across low, middle, and high-income countries: An international cohort study
  59. The Pulmonary Metastasectomy in Colorectal Cancer cohort study: Analysis of case selection, risk factors and survival in a prospective observational study of 512 patients
  60. 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)
  61. Timing of surgery following SARS-CoV-2 infection
  62. Which is the best approach for minimally invasive oesophagectomy?
  63. Elective Cancer Surgery in COVID-19–Free Surgical Pathways During the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic: An International, Multicenter, Comparative Cohort Study
  64. Anastomotic leak following oesophagectomy: research priorities from an international Delphi consensus study
  65. International consensus statement on robot-assisted minimally invasive esophagectomy (RAMIE)
  66. Preoperative nasopharyngeal swab testing and postoperative pulmonary complications in patients undergoing elective surgery during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic
  67. Delaying surgery for patients with a previous SARS-CoV-2 infection
  68. Late Breaking Abstract - Comparison of VATS debulking surgery and HITHOC vs VATS talc pleurodesis alone in malignant pleural mesothelioma: a pilot study
  69. Personalized approach for video-assisted thoracic surgery lung metastasectomy
  70. Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery
  71. Mortality and pulmonary complications in patients undergoing surgery with perioperative SARS-CoV-2 infection: an international cohort study
  72. Malignant pleural mesothelioma: between pragmatism and hope
  73. Imaging patterns of early stage lung cancer for the thoracic surgeon
  74. Making precision surgical strategies a reality: are we ready for a paradigm shift in thoracic surgical oncology?
  75. Mood disorders and outcomes in lung cancer patients undergoing surgery: a brief summery
  76. Risk factors for adverse events after elective colorectal surgery: beware of blood transfusions
  77. Reconstructive Surgery in Children with Down Syndrome: Bioethical Implications
  78. Perioperative chemoimmunotherapy in a patient with stage IIIB non-small cell lung cancer
  79. Nonintubated Uniportal Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery for Chest Infections
  80. Precision treatment of post pneumonectomy unilateral laryngeal paralysis due to cancer
  81. Precision surgery in lung metastasectomy
  82. Adenoid cystic carcinoma of trachea: long-term disease control after endoscopic surgery and radiotherapy
  83. Uniportal VATS: Comment on the consensus report from the uniportal VATS interest group (UVIG) of the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons
  84. Does cytoreduction surgery and hyperthermic intrathoracic chemotherapy prolong survival in patients with N0–N1 nonsmall cell lung cancer and malignant pleural effusion?
  85. International Variation in Surgical Practices in Units Performing Oesophagectomy for Oesophageal Cancer: A Unit Survey from the Oesophago-Gastric Anastomosis Audit (OGAA)
  86. Professor Tommaso Claudio Mineo (1945-2018)
  87. Global variation in anastomosis and end colostomy formation following left‐sided colorectal resection
  88. Pooled analysis of WHO Surgical Safety Checklist use and mortality after emergency laparotomy
  89. Uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery: twentieth anniversary
  90. Videomediastinoscopy
  91. Surgical site infection after gastrointestinal surgery in high-income, middle-income, and low-income countries: a prospective, international, multicentre cohort study
  92. Robotic resection of a middle mediastinal mass
  93. Uniportal, single incision VATS for the skeptics
  94. Single-institution experience of intensity-modulated radiotherapy for malignant pleural mesothelioma at University of Catania
  95. Occupational exposure to fluoro-edenite and prevalence of anti-nuclear autoantibodies
  96. Combined taxane-based chemotherapy and intensity-modulated radiotherapy with simultaneous integrated boost for gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma
  97. Fibulin-3 immunoexpression in malignant mesothelioma due to fluoro-edenite: a preliminary report
  98. 2016 Annual report from the Italian VATS Group
  99. Surgery for “advanced” lung and esophageal cancer: new horizons or false dawn?
  100. Ground glass opacities management in the lung cancer screening era
  101. Uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery, and the uni-surgeon: new words for the contemporary world
  102. 99mTechnetium and methylene blue guided pulmonary nodules resections: preliminary British experience
  103. Innovation in awake VATS
  104. Extended uniportal bilateral sympathectomy
  105. Parenchymal sparing resection for carcinoid of the right main bronchus
  106. Microlobectomy—where do we stand?
  107. Single incision extended video assisted transcervical thymectomy
  108. Various steps of video assisted transcervical thymectomy
  109. Is robotic surgery for NSCLC innovative enough?
  110. Massive relaxation of the diaphragm
  111. Video-assisted thoracic surgery mediastinal germ cell metastasis resection
  112. Subxiphoid port applied to robotic pulmonary lobectomies
  113. Debulking Surgery and Hyperthermic Chemotherapy for pleural mesothelioma: a pilot study.
  114. Debulking surgery and hyperthermic intrathoracic chemotherapy (HITHOC) for lung cancer
  115. Chylopericardium with symptoms of tamponade on the grounds of extensive neck vein thrombosis
  116. Awake uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery for complications after pneumonectomy
  117. Video-assisted thoracic surgery techniques for lung cancer: which is better?
  118. Intensity-modulated radiotherapy for relapsed malignant pleural mesothelioma
  119. Uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery or single-incision video-assisted thoracic surgery for lung resection: clarifying definitions
  120. Role, timing and technique of radiotherapy in pediatric pleuropulmonary synovial sarcoma
  121. Safety of video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy for non-small-cell lung cancer in a low-volume unit
  122. Early effects of fluoro-edenite: correlation between IL-18 serum levels and pleural and parenchymal abnormalities
  123. Lung cancer invading a single left pulmonary vein requiring extended pneumonectomy
  124. High risk of pleural plaques and parenchymal abnormalities in women living in Biancavilla (Italy)
  125. Video-assisted thoracic lobectomy for lung cancer in Italy: the ‘VATS Group’ Project
  126. VATS surgery for anatomical lung resection: a different approach for every surgeon
  127. Thoracic Surgery and Transplantation
  128. Robotic assisted lung resection needs further evidence
  129. Video assisted thoracic surgery
  130. Looking forward lung metastasectomy—do we need a staging system for lung metastases?
  131. uniportal VATS and new non surgical therapies can lead to the need of less surgeons
  132. Initial History of Uniportal Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery
  133. Management of recurrence after initial surgery for malignant pleural mesothelioma: a mini-review
  134. Preliminary experience with video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy for lung malignancies: general considerations moving toward standard practice
  135. Pleurectomy/decortication and hyperthermic intrapleural chemotherapy for malignant pleural mesothelioma: initial experience
  136. FBLN-3 as a biomarker of pleural plaques in workers occupationally exposed to carcinogenic fibers: a pilot study
  137. Follicular dendritic cell sarcoma of mediastinum: a key role of radiotherapy in a multidisciplinary approach
  138. Elastofibroma dorsi and the thoracic surgeon: experience with 13 patients
  139. Opening lecture to the Second Mediterranean Symposium in Thoracic Oncology
  140. Wider implications of video-assisted thoracic surgery versus open approach for lung metastasectomy
  141. Finding the evidence for pulmonary metastasectomy in colorectal cancer: the PulMicc trial
  142. Cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intrapleural chemotherapy for malignant pleural diseases: preliminary experience
  143. Mediterranean symposium in thoracic surgery: opening lectures
  144. Lung cancer and pleural mesothelioma
  145. Longitudinal and circumferential resection margin in adenocarcinoma of distal esophagus and cardia
  146. Flank pain caused by slipping rib syndrome
  147. Pulmonary Metastasectomy in Colorectal Cancer (PulMiCC International)
  148. A large aspergilloma
  149. Two cases of giant solitary fibrous tumor of the pleura: a not-so-rare tumor?
  150. Lung-sparing approach for an intrapulmonary bronchogenic cyst involving the right upper and middle lobes
  151. Interpretation of a Manometric Trace of the Upper Esophageal Sphincter
  152. Smartphones or Tablets for a Better Communication and Education Between Residents and Consultant in a Teaching Hospital
  153. Persistent hyperparathyroidism owing to a giant parathyroid adenoma in posterior mediastinum
  154. An unexpected difficult intubation in a patient with myasthenia gravis undergoing video-assisted transcervical thymectomy
  155. Randomized Controlled Trial of Pulmonary Metastasectomy in Colorectal Cancer: PulMiCC International Is Open in Italy
  156. Clinico-pathological findings in stage-I primary spontaneous pneumothorax: analysis of 19 cases and literature review
  157. Minimal access anterior mediastinotomy
  158. Bronchial cast hiding a lung cancer
  159. A hybrid single-trocar VATS technique for extracorporeal wedge biopsy of the lingula in patients with diffuse lung disease
  160. Episodic Abdominal and Chest Pain in a Young Adult
  161. Prognostic value of p53 and Ki67 expression in fiberoptic bronchial biopsies of patients with non small cell lung cancer
  162. Reoperation for failed reflux surgery
  163. Induction Therapy for Resectable Esophageal Cancer
  164. Extending Surgery for Pulmonary Metastasectomy: What Are the Limits?
  165. Cervico-mediastinal goiter: is telescopic exploration of the mediastinum (video mediastinoscopy) useful?☆
  166. An unusual clinical case of haemoptysis in spontaneous pneumothorax: blood clots within emphysematous bulla
  167. Pulmonary Metastasectomy: A Survey of Current Practice Amongst Members of the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons
  168. A surgeon's case volume of oesophagectomy for cancer strongly influences the operative mortality rate
  169. Management of concomitant congenital tracheo-oesophageal fistula and cancer of the oesophago–gastric junction in an adult
  170. Pneumothorax and mediastinal emphysema due to an air leak from a bulla in an azygos lobe☆
  171. Efficacy and safety of single-trocar technique for minimally invasive surgery of the chest in the treatment of noncomplex pleural disease
  172. The place of Belsey Mark IV fundoplication in the era of laparoscopic surgery☆
  173. Right Intraventricular Hydatid Cyst of the Heart
  174. Four-Step Local Anesthesia and Sedation for Thoracoscopic Diagnosis and Management of Pleural Diseases
  175. Pulmonary vein gas analysis for assessing donor lung function
  176. A single-trocar technique for minimally invasive surgery of the chest
  177. Thoracoscopic surgery, video-thoracoscopic surgery, or VATS: a confusion in definition
  178. Pharyngo-esophageal dysphagia as a clinical presentation of esophageal achalasia
  179. 2000 Scientific Session of the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 29 March–1 April 2000
  180. Clinical features and oesophageal motility in patients with tight fundoplication
  181. Villous Adenocarcinoma of the Duodenum Invading the Ampulla of Vater: Case Report and Review of Literature
  182. Pharyngo-oesophageal dysphagia: surgery based on clinical and manometric data
  183. Diffuse colonic lipomatosis with giant hypertrophy of the epiploic appendices and diverticulosis of the colon
  184. Esophageal Carcinoma with Airway Invasion
  185. Pathophysiologic basis for operation on Zenker's diverticulum
  186. Early evaluation and therapy for caustic esophageal injury