THORACIC SURGERY CLINICS www.thoracic.theclinics.com Consulting Editor VIRGINIA R. LITLE August 2021 • Volume 31 Number 3

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery Database has grown to more than 500,000 case records. Clinical research supported by the database is increasingly used to advance patient outcomes. This research review from the General Thoracic Surgery Database in 2014 and 2015 discusses 6 recent publications and an ongoing study on longitudinal outcomes in lung cancer surgery from The ...

To describe two cases of thoracic paraplegia due to a thoracic spinal cord tumor (meningioma) that was not detected during lumbar spinal decompressive surgery for lumbar canal stenosis and a complaint of claudication. The follow-up period ranged from 1 year and 6 months to 1 year and 8 months. The neurological deficit due to thoracic meningioma after surgery for lumbar canal stensois was decrea...

Three months after esophagectomy for esophageal cancer, a 58-year-old man presented with fluid trapped in his upper mediastinum due to chylous leakage from a duplicated left-sided thoracic duct that remained after excision of the main thoracic duct. Classical lymphangiography using lipiodol confirmed the presence of duplicated thoracic ducts. Conservative treatments were not effective, and then...

J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Hansell H. Stedman, Sanford Levine and Larry R. Kaiser Joseph B. Shrager, Dong-Kwan Kim, Yahya J. Hashmi, Edward B. Lankford, Peter Wahl, relationship in emphysematous rats Lung volume reduction surgery restores the normal diaphragmatic length-tension http://jtcs.ctsnetjournals.org/cgi/content/full/121/2/0217 the World Wide Web at: The online version of this article, al...