Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University ofWashington, Seattle,Washington; Department of Thoracic andCardiovascular Surgery, University of TexasMDAndersonCancerCenter,Houston,Texas;DivisionofThoracicSurgery,Memorial Sloan-KetteringCancerCenter, New York, New York; Section of Thoracic Surgery, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, Washington; Division of Thoracic Surgery, University of T...

OBJECTIVES To investigate effects of the limited two-port video assisted thoracic surgery on treatment of spontaneous pneumothorax. METHODS A retrospective analysis of 96 patients with spontaneous pneumothorax who underwent video assisted thoracic surgery was conducted in the present study, in which 23 cases underwent the limited two-port video assisted thoracic surgery while 73 cases treated...

The patient was a 59-year-old female. Because of massive hemoptysis, she was brought to our emergency center by ambulance. Thoracic computed tomography led to a diagnosis of an infectious thoracic aortic pseudoaneurysm accompanied by an aortobronchopulmonary fistula. Emergency surgery followed. Also noted was an advanced hepatic dysfunction, assessed as Child-Pugh score B, caused by an alcoholi...

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Coruña University Hospital and Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery Unit (UCTMI), Coruña, Spain; Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200433, China *These authors contributed equally to this work. Correspondence to: Diego Gonzalez-Rivas, MD, FECTS. Department of Thoracic Surgery, Coruña Univers...

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Professor Vladimir Ivanovich Burakovsky was born on August 20, 1922 in Tiflis (Tbilisi). In 1940, entered the Tbilisi Medical Institute. 1947, V. I. enrolled a clinical residency at Department of Faculty Surgery № 2 (since 1955 – for Advanced Doctors 1) Military Academy named after S. M. Kirov Leningrad. spring 1960, accepted as senior researcher this Institute and appointed head heart blood ve...