News
| Journal of Thoracic Disease (JTD) has been indexed by SCIE | PDF HTML |
| Editorial Team | 105-108 |
Featured Interview
| Welcome to the 15th World Conference on Lung Cancer: interview with Prof. Kwun Fong | PDF HTML |
| Grace Li | 109-111 |
Editorials
| Radiotherapy for lung tumors arising after a prior pneumonectomy | PDF HTML |
| Ke-Cheng Chen, Jin-Shing Chen | 112-113 |
| Sodium tanshinone IIA sulfonate for pulmonary arterial hypertension: emerging therapeutic option | PDF HTML |
| Shahzad G. Raja | 114-115 |
Original Articles
| Radiotherapy for a second primary lung cancer arising post-pneumonectomy: planning considerations and clinical outcomes | PDF HTML |
| Sashendra Senthi, Cornelis J. A. Haasbeek, Frank J. Lagerwaard, Wilko F. Verbakel, Patricia F. de Haan, Ben J. Slotman, Suresh Senan | 116-122 |
| Results of management of esophageal and GE junction malignancies in Nepalese context | PDF HTML |
| Binay Thakur, Hui Li, Mukti Devkota | 123-128 |
| Thoracoscopic thymectomy: technical pearls to a 21st century approach | PDF HTML |
| Bryan A. Whitson, Rafael S. Andrade, Mohi O. Mitiek, Jonathan D'Cunha, Michael A. Maddaus | 129-134 |
| Diagnostic management of patients with suspected ocular sarcoidosis | PDF HTML |
| Kazuto Takada, Shuuichi Matsumoto, Eiji Kojima, Susumu Iwata, Kentarou Tanaka | 135-140 |
| Pleurodesis with povidone-iodine, as an effective procedure in management of patients with malignant pleural effusion | PDF HTML |
| Gholamali Godazandeh, Nasim Haji Qasemi, Mohammad Saghafi, Meisam Mortazian, Pouya Tayebi | 141-144 |
| The N-ERC index is a novel monitoring and prognostic marker for advanced malignant pleural mesothelioma | PDF HTML |
| Takanori Mori, Ken Tajima, Michihiro Hirama, Tadashi Sato, Kenji Kido, Shin-ichiro Iwakami, Shinichi Sasaki, Akihiko Iwase, Kazu Shiomi, Masahiro Maeda, Okio Hino, Kazuhisa Takahashi | 145-148 |
| Analysis of antimicrobial resistance and class 1 integrons among strains from upper respiratory tract of healthy adults | PDF HTML |
| Haiyan Liu, Hai Wang, Mao Huang, Yaning Mei, Bing Gu, Rui Wu, Yiling Huang, Yi Chen, Yanling Xu, Tong Wang | 149-155 |
| Changes in brain natriuretic peptide are correlated with changes in global end-diastolic volume index | PDF HTML |
| Zhongheng Zhang, Hongying Ni, Baolong Lu, Xiao Xu | 156-160 |
Brief Reports
| Early-stage thymic carcinoma: is adjuvant therapy required? | PDF HTML |
| Mitsuaki Sakai, Takuya Onuki, Masaharu Inagaki, Masatoshi Yamaoka, Shinsuke Kitazawa, Keisuke Kobayashi, Kesato Iguchi, Shinji Kikuchi, Yukinobu Goto, Masataka Onizuka, Yukio Sato | 161-164 |
| Video-assisted thoracoscopic management for emphysema associated with contralateral destroyed lung | PDF HTML |
| Xin Xu, Hanzhang Chen, Weiqiang Yin, Bing Wei, Dong Xiao, Jun Liu, Jianxing He | 165-168 |
| Promising therapeutic effects of sodium tanshinone IIA sulfonate towards pulmonary arterial hypertension in patients | PDF HTML |
| Jian Wang, Wenju Lu, Wei Wang, Nuofu Zhang, Hua Wu, Chunli Liu, Xiuqing Chen, Yonghua Chen, Yuqin Chen, Qian Jiang, Lei Xu, Lichun Tian, Pixin Ran, Nanshan Zhong | 169-172 |
Review Articles
| Thymic neoplasm: a rare disease with a complex clinical presentation | PDF HTML |
| Omar M. Rashid, Anthony D. Cassano, Kazuaki Takabe | 173-183 |
| Overview of progresses in critical care medicine 2012 | PDF HTML |
| Wei Huang, Xianyao Wan | 184-192 |
ICC COLUMN: The Voice of the Patient
| Improving health care benefits by reducing costs | PDF HTML |
| Lawrence Grouse | 193-194 |
Perspectives
| Hedgehog signaling pathway: the must, the maybe and the unknown | PDF HTML |
| Paul Zarogoulidis, Katerina Zarampouka, Haidong Huang, Kaid Darwiche, Yong Huang, Antonis Sakkas, Konstantinos Zarogoulidis | 195-197 |
| Surgical treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis: the phoenix of thoracic surgery? | PDF HTML |
| Luca Bertolaccini, Andrea Viti, Giovanni Di Perri, Alberto Terzi | 198-199 |
Images of the Issues
| Thyroid gland metastasis from small cell lung cancer: an unusual site of metastatic spread | PDF HTML |
| Stamatis Katsenos, Stavros Archondakis, Michalis Vaias, Nikolaos Skoulikaris | E21-E24 |
| A case report of hydatid cysts containing aspergillus | PDF HTML |
| Jin-Bing Pan, Yu-Hong Hou, Ping-Zhang Yin | E25-E27 |
| When should large benign tumours in posterior mediastinum be resected? | PDF HTML |
| Jens Eckardt, Peter B. Licht | E28-E30 |
| Preoperative CT-Guided percutaneous wire localization of ground glass pulmonary nodules with a modified Kopans wire | PDF HTML |
| Maureen P. Kohi, David M. Naeger, Jasleen Kukreja, Nicholas Fidelman, Jeanne M. LaBerge, Roy L. Gordon, Robert K. Kerlan Jr | E31-E34 |
| Bone metastases with nerve root compression as a late complication in patient with epithelial pleural mesothelioma | PDF HTML |
| Susana Cedrés, Lorena Fariñas, Neda Stejpanovic, Pablo Martinez, Alex Martinez, Esther Zamora, Maria Angeles Montero, Enriqueta Felip | E35-E37 |
| Boerhaave’s syndrome and tension pneumothorax secondary to Norovirus induced forceful emesis | PDF HTML |
| Søren Venø, Jens Eckardt | E38-E40 |
Case Reports
| Bone scan findings of chest wall pain syndrome after stereotactic body radiation therapy: implications for the pathophysiology of the syndrome | PDF HTML |
| Shane Lloyd, Roy H. Decker, Suzanne B. Evans | E41-E44 |
| Vanishing lung mass in a patient with asthma | PDF HTML |
| Karan Madan, Randeep Guleria | E45-E49 |
| Acute respiratory distress syndrome in one patient with gout complicated by severe pulmonary tuberculosis: report of one case and literature review | PDF HTML |
| Wei Wang, Yu Zhou, Zhenjiao Su, Li Luo, Ling Zhao | E50-E52 |
| Hypersensitivity reactions to carboplatin and cisplatin in non-small cell lung cancer | PDF HTML |
| J. Michael Randall, Anjali A. Bharne, Lyudmila A. Bazhenova | E53-E57 |
| Early severe mediastinal bleeding after esophagectomy: a potentially lethal complication | PDF HTML |
| Jeroen E.H. Ponten, Sylvia van der Horst, Grard A.P Nieuwenhuijzen, Ted W.O. Elenbaas, Richard van Hillegersberg, Misha D.P. Luyer | E58-E60 |
| Postoperative radiotherapy for residual tumor of primary mediastinal carcinoid teratoma | PDF HTML |
| Lingli Tu, Lan Sun, Yu Zhou, Youling Gong, Jianxin Xue, Jun Gao, You Lu, Yongsheng Wang | E61-E64 |
| Complete response of 7 years’ duration after chemoradiotherapy followed by gefitinib in a patient with intramedullary spinal cord metastasis from lung adenocarcinoma | PDF HTML |
| Yoshinobu Hata, Yujiro Takai, Hiroshi Takahashi, Keigo Takagi, Kazutoshi Isobe, Chikako Hasegawa, Kazutoshi Shibuya, Hidenori Goto, Kazuyoshi Tamaki, Fumitomo Sato, Hajime Otsuka | E65-E67 |
| Late recurrence of basaloid carcinoma initially treated as a small cell lung cancer | PDF HTML |
| Vladimir Shumaster, Jason W. Bae, Scott N. Gettinger, Guoping Cai, Anthony W. Kim | E68-E70 |
| Organizing pneumonia presenting after ulcerative colitis remission | PDF HTML |
| Eun Chul Jang, Suk Jin Choi, Jae Hwa Cho, Jeong-Seon Ryu, Seung Min Kwak, Hong Lyeol Lee, Hae-Seong Nam | E71-E73 |
Letter to the Editor
| Chinese guidelines for influenza management | PDF HTML |
| Somsri Wiwanitkit, Viroj Wiwanitkit | E74 |
Below are the latest Journal of Thoracic Disease articles published online ahead of print publication.
Brief Reports
- Responsiveness to leukotriene D4 and methacholine for predicting efficacy of montelukast in asthma
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Wei-Jie Guan, Jin-Ping Zheng, Yi Gao, Cai-Yu Jiang, Yan-Qing Xie, Xu Shi, Zheng Zhu, Jia-Ying An, Xin-Xin Yu, Wen-Ting Liu, Nan-Shan Zhong
- Is stent insertion via flexible bronchoscopy a feasible alternative to surgery in inoperable thyroid related tracheobronchial stenosis?
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Emmet E. McGrath, David Warriner, Paul B. Anderson
- Bronchoalveolar neutrophilia inversely correlates with DLCO at diagnosis in asbestosis but not lung function decline at 1 year
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Gareth Walters, Sushil Agarwal, Karanvir Singh, P. Sherwood Burge, Emmet E. McGrath
Case Reports
- Premitive neuro-ectodermal tumour of the lung
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Gajanan S Gaude, Pradeep Patil, Prakash Malur, Shivappa Annurshetru
- Asthma combined with Hodgkin's lymphoma: A case report and review of the literature
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Shuyi Gu, Qingyun Li, Yi Guo, Huanying Wan
- Symptomatic large bilateral adrenal metastases at presentation in small-cell lung cancer : a case report and review of the literature
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Navneet Singh, Karan Madan, Ashutosh N. Aggarwal, Ashim Das
- Diagnosis of systemic amyloidosis and amyloidosis mediated cardiomyopathy by VATS pleural biopsy for chronic pleural effusion
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Jessica Harvey-Taylor, Yanhong Zhang, Valerie Kuderer, David T. Cooke
- Pulmonary tumor thrombotic microangiopathy from metastatic epithelioid angiosarcoma
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Funda Demirag, Ebru Cakir, Ulku Yazıcı, Irfan Tastepe
- The value of chest tomosynthesis in locating a ground glass nodule (GGN) during endobronchial ultrasonography with a guide sheath: a case report
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Takehiro Izumo, Shinji Sasada, Christine Chavez, Yuuichi Nagai, Mayumi Kitagawa, Jun Torii, Takumi Iwase, Tomohiko Aso, Yukiko Nakamura, Yasuyuki Mizumori, Chaosheng Deng, Weihua Xu, Takaaki Tsuchida, Noriyuki Moriyama
- Metachronous lung cancer that presented as bilateral synchronous lung cancer
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Celalettin Ibrahim Kocaturk, Levent Cansever, Dilek Zehra Kanmaz, Mehmet Ali Bedirhan
- Metachronous lung cancer that presented as bilateral synchronous lung cancer
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Celalettin Ibrahim Kocaturk, Levent Cansever, Dilek Zehra Kanmaz, Mehmet Ali Bedirhan
- Principles of biopsy in suspected lung cancer: priority still based on invasion in the era of targeted therapy?
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Hua-Jun Chen, Jin-Ji Yang, Chong-Rui Xu, Yuan-Yuan Lei, Dong-Lan Luo, Hong-Hong Yan, Yi-Long Wu
Editorials
- Tocopherols and tocotrienols as anticancer treatment for lung cancer: future nutrition
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Paul Zarogoulidis, Aggeliki Cheva, Katerina Zarampouka, Haidong Huang, Chen Li, Yong Huang, Nikolaos Katsikogiannis, Konstantinos Zarogoulidis
- Myocardial perfusion reserve index during adenosine stress magnetic resonance for the detection of coronary artery disease - ready for prime time?
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Grigorios Korosoglou, Hugo A. Katus
- The continual search for ideal biomarkers for mesothelioma: the hurdles
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Fraser J Brims, Y C Gary Lee, Jenette Creaney
- Immediate bilateral nipple-sparing mastectomy and implant-based breast reconstruction
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Mark V. Schaverien
- Reproducibility of a cardiac magnetic resonance derived myocardial perfusion reserve index
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Geraint Morton
- Roflumilast: a green signal is yet to come
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Nazir Lone, Yuji Oba
Original Articles
- Restrictive pulmonary deficit is associated with inflammation in suboptimally controlled obese diabetics
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Lexley M. Pinto Pereira, Terence A. R. Seemungal, Surujpal Teelucksingh, B. Shivananda Nayak
- Tramadol combined with fentanyl in awake endotracheal intubation
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Sai-Ying Wang, Yang Mei, Hui Sheng, Yang Li, Rui Han, Cheng-Xuan Quan, Zhong-Hua Hu, Wen Ouyang, Zhao-Qian Liu, Kai-Ming Duan
- Surgical treatment of bronchiectasis: a retrospective observational study of 138 patients
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Reda E. Al-Refaie, Sameh Amer, Mohamed El-Shabrawy
- The diagnosis efficacy and safety of video-assisted thoracoscopy surgery (VATS) in undefined interstitial lung diseases: a retrospective study
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Qun Luo, Qian Han, Xiaobo Chen, Jiaxing Xie, Lulu Wu, Rongchang Chen
- Elevated high-sensitivity C-reactive protein in preterm infants with pulmonary colonization with Ureaplasma
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John T. Meadows Jr, Benjamin T. Kopp, Lori A. Shook, Hubert O. Ballard, Don Hayes Jr
- Major morbidity after lung resection: a comparison between the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons Database system and the Thoracic Morbidity and Mortality system
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Michele Salati, Majed Refai, Cecilia Pompili, Francesco Xiumè, Armando Sabbatini, Alessandro Brunelli
- Comparison of four DNA extraction methods for detecting Mycobacterium tuberculosis by real-time PCR and its clinical application in pulmonary tuberculosis
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Shiyang Pan, Bing Gu, Hong Wang, Zihe Yan, Peng Wang, Hao Pei, Weiping Xie, Dan Chen, Genyan Liu
- In vitro activation of hTERT-specific T cell responses in lung cancer patients following chemotherapy
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Benedikt Gahn, Matthias Staudinger, Katrin Woester, Dominique Wellnitz, Sebastian Boettcher, Martin Gramatzki, Michael Kneba
Perspective
- Severe acute respiratory syndrome: a vanished evil?
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Wei-Jie Guan, Xue-Yan Zheng, Guang-Qiao Zeng, Nan-Shan Zhong
Letter to the Editor
- Gold nanoparticle solution: An alternative tool for discriminating between pleural transudate and exudates
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Beuy Joob, Viroj Wiwanitkit
Review Article
- Acute respiratory distress syndrome: new definition, current and future therapeutic options
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Vito Fanelli, Aikaterini Vlachou, Shirin Ghannadian, Umberto Simonetti, Arthur S. Slutsky, Haibo Zhang
- Superior sulcus (Pancoast) tumors: current evidence on diagnosis and radical treatment
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Christophoros N. Foroulis, Paul Zarogoulidis, Kaid Darwiche, Nikolaos Katsikogiannis, Nikolaos Machairiotis, Ilias Karapantzos, Kosmas Tsakiridis, Haidong Huang, Konstantinos Zarogoulidis
- Breast cancer in the young: role of the geneticist
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Ashley H. Woodson, Jessica L. Profato, Kimberly I. Muse, Jennifer K. Litton
- Statin treatment before percutaneous cononary intervention
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Mario Leoncini, Anna Toso, Mauro Maioli, Francesco Tropeano, Francesco Bellandi
Surgical Technique
- Surgical technique for lung retransplantation in the mouse
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Wenjun Li, Daniel R. Goldstein, Alejandro C. Bribriesco, Ruben G. Nava, Jessica H. Spahn, Xingan Wang, Andrew E. Gelman, Alexander S. Krupnick, Daniel Kreisel
- Geometrical Characteristics of Uniportal VATS
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Luca Bertolaccini, Gaetano Rocco, Andrea Viti, Alberto Terzi
- Thoracic malignant solitary fibrous tumors: A population-based study of survival
- Treatment of advanced non small cell lung cancer
- Effect of intersubject variability of extrathoracic morphometry, lung airways dimensions and respiratory parameters on particle deposition
- Delays in the diagnosis of lung cancer
- Stereotactic ablative radiotherapy for stage I NSCLC: Recent advances and controversies
- Inoperable stage III non-small cell lung cancer: Current treatment and role of vinorelbine
- Successful treatment of primary pulmonary melanoma
- Effect of intersubject variability of extrathoracic morphometry, lung airways dimensions and respiratory parameters on particle deposition
- Prospective comparative study of single-layer versus double-layer closure of leg wounds after long saphenous vein harvest in coronary artery bypass graft operations
- Early enteral infusion of traditional Chinese medicine preparation can effectively promote the recovery of gastrointestinal function after esophageal cancer surger
- Investigation of quality of life and relevant influence factors in patients awaiting lung transplantation
- High prevalence of gene abnormalities in young patients with lung cancer
- A review of current and novel therapies for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
- Thymic neoplasm: a rare disease with a complex clinical presentation
