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