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Medicine & Public Health
Thoracic Surgery
Jiro Okami
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Metastatic pathways to the lower zone by segment in patients with clinical T1 lower lobe non-small cell lung cancer
Segmentectomy and mediastinal lymph node dissection (LND) may increasingly be used for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Lymph node metastasis (LNM) distribution varies by lower lobe segments; however, its s...
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Surgical indication of pulmonary metastasis arising from osteosarcoma or soft tissue sarcoma
Metastasectomy is often the local treatment for pulmonary metastases arising from osteosarcoma or soft tissue sarcoma. However, there have been few investigations on the outcomes of patients who undergo this p...
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Open AccessOutcomes of surgical resection for pulmonary metastasis from ovarian cancer
Due to its rarity, information on pulmonary metastasectomy for pulmonary metastasis from ovarian cancer is limited.
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Pleural recurrence after surgery for pleomorphic adenoma arising from peripheral lung: computed tomography-guided percutaneous needle biopsy as a possible mechanism of local failure
A 75-year-old male was referred to our hospital because of an abnormal shadow found in the right lung 2 years prior that had been increasing in size. Chest computed tomography showed a 1-cm well-defined nodule...
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Pulmonary metastasectomy: outcomes and issues according to the type of surgical resection
According to a recent report by the Committee for Scientific Affairs of the Japanese Association for Thoracic Surgery, pulmonary metastasectomy accounted for as many as 10.2 % of all entry cases of general tho...
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A simple risk scoring system for predicting acute exacerbation of interstitial pneumonia after pulmonary resection in lung cancer patients
Lung cancer patients with interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) who have undergone pulmonary resection often develop acute exacerbation of interstitial pneumonia (AE) in the post-operative period. To predict who i...
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Open AccessPrimary papillary carcinoma of the thymus with invasion into subcutaneous tissue through the sternum
Thymic carcinoma is a rare malignant neoplasm. We present a Japanese case of papillary carcinoma of thymus in a 64-year-old man that invaded into subcutaneous tissue penetrating the sternum. We describe the cl...
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Surgical management of primary intrathoracic goiters
Intrathoracic goiters account for 3.1%–5.8% of all mediastinal masses. Primary intrathoracic goiters, which receive their blood supply from mediastinal vessels and disconnect at the cervical thyroid, are even ...
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Surgical treatment for gastrointestinal metastasis of non-small-cell lung cancer after pulmonary resection
Gastrointestinal metastasis is not common in recurrent non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients. There is thus limited information on clinical outcome for these patients. This report presents the clinical c...
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Surgical treatment for lung cancer in the left lung complicated by isolated right thoracic isomerism
The term “isolated right thoracic isomerism” is used to describe a situation in which the anatomy of the bronchi, lung lobes, and pulmonary vessels on the left side is similar to that on the right side with no...
