DOI: 10.1055/s-00000085

The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon

Issue 06 · Volume 54 · September 2006 DOI: 10.1055/s-002-5124

Gesellschaftsmitteilungen

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Fenger, H.; Scheld, H. H.; Hoffmeier, A.: Die Abmahnung von Klinikärzten

Editorial

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Schirren, J.; Bergmann, T.; Beqiri, S.; Bölükbas, S.; Fisseler-Eckhoff, A.; Vogt-Moykopf, I.: Lymphatic Spread in Resectable Lung Cancer: Can We Trust in a Sentinel Lymph Node?

Basic Science

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Doenst, T.; Bugger, H.; Leippert, S.; Barleon, B.; Marme, D.; Beyersdorf, F.: Differential Gene Expression in Response to Ventricular Unloading in Rat and Human Myocardium
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Kusch, B.; Waldhans, S.; Sattler, A.; Wagner, A.; Hecker, M.; Moosdorf, R.; Vogt, S.: Inhibition of Carotis Venous Bypass Graft Disease by Intraoperative Nucleic Acid-Based Therapy in Rabbits

Original Cardiovascular

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Schmid, C.; Tjan, T.; Etz, C.; Welp, H.; Rukosujew, A.; Klotz, S.; Drees, G.; Gogarten, W.; Scheld, H. H.: The Excor Device - Revival of an Old System with Excellent Results
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Dias, R. R.; Stolf, N. A. G.; Malbouisson, L. M.; Fernandes, F.; Ramirez, F. J. A.; Mady, C.; Oliveira, S. A.: Morbidity and Embolic Potential of Left Atrial Cardiac Tumors
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Furusawa, T.; Tsukioka, K.; Fukui, D.; Sakaguchi, M.; Seto, T.; Terasaki, T.; Wada, Y.; Amano, J.: The Effects of a Neutrophil Elastase Inhibitor on the Postoperative Respiratory Failure of Acute Aortic Dissection
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Schimmer, C.; Reents, W.; Elert, O.: Primary Closure of Median Sternotomy: A Survey of all German Surgical Heart Centers and a Review of the Literature Concerning Sternal Closure Technique
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Koch, A.; Tochtermann, U.; Remppis, A.; Dengler, T. J.; Schnabel, P. A.; Hagl, S.; Sack, F. U.: The Eurotransplant High-Urgency Heart Transplantation Program: An Option for Patients in Acute Heart Failure?

Original Thoracic

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Sawabata, N.; Takeda, S.-I.; Inoue, M.; Tokunaga, T.; Koma, M.; Maeda, H.: Spread of Malignant Cells in the Surgical Margin with Stapled Excision of Lung Cancer: Comparison of Aggressive Clump and Less Traumatic Jaw Closure Type Staplers

Short Communications

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Kim, Chi Kyung; Beom Park, Chan; Jin, Ung; Ju Cho, Eun: Entrapment of Guidewire in the Coronary Stent during Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
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Cicekcioglu, F.; Tutun, U.; Demirtas, E.; Aksoyek, A.; Babaroglu, S.; Parlar, A. I.; Katircioglu, F.: Repair of Postinfarction Ventricular Septal Defect Through the Right Atrium
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Aleksic, I.; Leyh, R.; Schorn, B.: Extra-Anatomic Management of Homograft Reinfection after Thoracic Aortic Rupture
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Endara, S. A.; Davalos, G. A.; Serrano, A. J.; Torres, F. J.; Sandoval, B. A.; Sarsoza, C. E.; Montalvo, N.: Pulmonary Myofibroblastic Pseudotumor: A Rare Surgical Pathology
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Çelik, B.; Basoglu, A.: Posttraumatic Pulmonary Pseudocyst: A Rare Complication of Blunt Chest Trauma
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Ferrari, G.; Paci, M.; Sgarbi, G.: Thymolipoma of the Anterior Mediastinum: Videothoracoscopic Removal Using a Bilateral Approach
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Thrum, K.; Gajda, M.; Settmacher, U.: Large Mediastinal Sarcoma in a Patient with Gorlin-Goltz Syndrome