Thoracoscopic Surgery in Asia

Posted On 2017-07-11 16:38:53

This Focused issue on “Thoracoscopic Surgery in Asia”, guest edited by Dr. Toshiaki Morikawa, aims to provide comprehensive perspectives and surgical techniques in the thoracoscopic field to thoracic surgeons all around the world, which we hope will also be beneficial to the growth of young surgeons.

Preface
Thoracoscopic Surgery in Asia
Toshiaki Morikawa

Review Article on Thoracic Surgery
Surgical and oncological outcomes of thoracoscopic thymectomy for thymoma
Makoto Odaka, You Tsukamoto, Takamasa Shibasaki, Shohei Mori, Hisatoshi Asano, Makoto Yamashita, Toshiaki Morikawa

Challenges in complex video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery and spontaneous respiration video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery procedures
Jingpei Li, Hui Liu, Jun Liu, Xusen Zou, Lili Mo, Hui Pan, Guilin Peng, Wenlong Shao, Lindsey Hamblin, Lixia Liang, Qinglong Dong, Jianxing He

Community for thoracoscopic surgery
Eunjue Yi, Sanghoon Jheon

Brief Report on Thoracic Surgery
Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery training with a polyvinyl-alcohol hydrogel model mimicking real tissue
Toshihiko Sato, Toshiaki Morikawa

Perspective on Thoracic Surgery
Thoracoscopic wedge resection and segmentectomy for small-sized pulmonary nodules
Hirohisa Kato, Hiroyuki Oizumi, Jun Suzuki, Akira Hamada, Hikaru Watarai, Kenta Nakahashi, Mitsuaki Sadahiro


Disclosure:
The series “Thoracoscopic Surgery in Asia” was commissioned by the editorial office, Journal of Visualized Surgery without any sponsorship or funding. Toshiaki Morikawa served as the unpaid Guest Editor for the series.