Pascal Alexandre Thomas
	Stage IIIA N2 non-small-cell lung cancer: current controversies in combined-modality therapy (Editorial) Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2009;36:431-432. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Herbert Decaluwé, Paul De Leyn, Johan Vansteenkiste, Christophe Dooms, Dirk Van Raemdonck, Philippe Nafteux, Willy Coosemans, and Toni Lerut
	Surgical multimodality treatment for baseline resectable stage IIIA-N2 non-small cell lung cancer. Degree of mediastinal lymph node involvement and impact on survival (Original articles) Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2009;36:433-439. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Andrea Billé, Ettore Pelosi, Andrea Skanjeti, Vincenzo Arena, Luca Errico, Piero Borasio, Maurizio Mancini, and Francesco Ardissone
	Preoperative intrathoracic lymph node staging in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer: accuracy of integrated positron emission tomography and computed tomography (Original articles) Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2009;36:440-445. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Virginia Tirino, Rosa Camerlingo, Renato Franco, Donatella Malanga, Antonello La Rocca, Giuseppe Viglietto, Gaetano Rocco, and Giuseppe Pirozzi
	The role of CD133 in the identification and characterisation of tumour-initiating cells in non-small-cell lung cancer (Original articles) Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2009;36:446-453. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Johannes Merk, Jana Rolff, Michael Becker, Gunda Leschber, and Iduna Fichtner
	Patient-derived xenografts of non-small-cell lung cancer: a pre-clinical model to evaluate adjuvant chemotherapy? (Original articles) Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2009;36:454-459. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Weidong Li, Yiming Ni, Zhengliang Tu, Shengjun Wu, Zhiyong Wu, and Shusen Zheng
	Study of telomerase activity in pleural lavage fluid specimens in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer and its clinical significance (Original articles) Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2009;36:460-464. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Henrik Ømark Petersen, Jens Eckardt, Ardeshir Hakami, Karen Ege Olsen, and Ole Dan Jørgensen
	The value of mediastinal staging with endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration in patients with lung cancer (Original articles) Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2009;36:465-468. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Apostolos Nakas, Michael N. Klimatsidas, James Entwisle, Antonio E. Martin-Ucar, and David A. Waller
	Video-assisted versus open pulmonary metastasectomy: the surgeon's finger or the radiologist's eye? (Original articles) Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2009;36:469-474. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Luca Luzzi, Andrea Campione, Alberto Gorla, Giuseppe Vassallo, Andrea Bianchi, Alberto Biggi, and Alberto Terzi
	Role of fluorine-flurodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography in preoperative assessment of anterior mediastinal masses (Original articles) Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2009;36:475-479. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Junqiang Chen, Suoyan Liu, Jianji Pan, Xiongwei Zheng, Kunshou Zhu, Ji Zhu, Jinrong Xiao, and Mingang Ying
	The pattern and prevalence of lymphatic spread in thoracic oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma (Original articles) Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2009;36:480-486. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Shigeki Sawada, Eisaku Komori, and Motohiro Yamashita
	Evaluation of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery lobectomy requiring emergency conversion to thoracotomy (Original articles) Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2009;36:487-490. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Jorge M. Cruz, Manuel Fonseca, Fausto J. Pinto, Antonio G. Oliveira, and L. Silva Carvalho
	Cardiopulmonary effects following endoscopic thoracic sympathectomy for primary hyperhidrosis (Original articles) Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2009;36:491-496. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [CME]

Satoru Osaki, James D. Maloney, Keith C. Meyer, Richard D. Cornwell, Niloo M. Edwards, and Nilto C. De Oliveira
	The impact of the lung allocation scoring system at the single national Veterans Affairs Hospital lung transplantation program (Original articles) Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2009;36:497-501. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Markus Schwefer, Rene Aschenbach, Jan Heidemann, Celia Mey, and Harald Lapp
	Constrictive pericarditis, still a diagnostic challenge: comprehensive review of clinical management (Review) Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2009;36:502-510. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [CME]

Sotiris C. Papaspyros, Kalyana C. Javangula, and David J. O’Regan
	Surgical training in the 48-h week: a novel simulation and educational tool. From amateur golfer to professional pilot (Original articles) Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2009;36:511-515. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Paul N. Uhlig
	Editorial comment: Great golf, safe landings and better surgical education (Original articles) Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2009;36:515-516. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Hiroaki Miyata, Noboru Motomura, Yuichi Ueda, Hiroyuki Tsukihara, Koichi Tabayashi, and Shinichi Takamoto
	Toward quality improvement of thoracic aortic surgery: estimating volume-outcome effect from nationwide survey (Original articles) Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2009;36:517-521. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Jean Bachet
	Editorial comment: Toward quality improvement of thoracic aortic surgery: estimating volume–outcome effect from nationwide survey (Original articles) Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2009;36:521-523. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Jorge Salazar, Ryan Coleman, Stephen Griffith, Jeffrey McNeil, Haven Young, John Calhoon, Faridis Serrano, and Robert DiGeronimo
	Brain preservation with selective cerebral perfusion for operations requiring circulatory arrest: protection at 25 °C is similar to 18 °C with shorter operating times (Original articles) Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2009;36:524-531. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Joerg Seeburger, Michael A. Borger, Nicolas Doll, Thomas Walther, Jurgen Passage, Volkmar Falk, and Friedrich W. Mohr
	Comparison of outcomes of minimally invasive mitral valve surgery for posterior, anterior and bileaflet prolapse (Original articles) Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2009;36:532-538. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Fabien Chenot, Patrick Montant, David Vancraeynest, Agnès Pasquet, Bernhard Gerber, Philippe Henri Noirhomme, Gébrine El Khoury, and Jean-Louis Vanoverschelde
	Long-term clinical outcome of mitral valve repair in asymptomatic severe mitral regurgitation (Original articles) Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2009;36:539-545. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Eva Maria B. Delmo Walter, Henryk Siniawski, and Roland Hetzer
	Sustained improvement after combined anterior mitral valve leaflet retention plasty and septal myectomy in preventing systolic anterior motion in hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy in children (Original articles) Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2009;36:546-552. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [CME]

Atul Dave Nagpal, Lucia Torracca, Andrea Fumero, Paolo Denti, Micaela Cioni, and Ottavio Alfieri
	Concurrent prophylactic left atrial appendage exclusion: results from a randomized controlled trial pilot study (Original articles) Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2009;36:553-557. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Stefan Lönnerholm, Per Blomström, Leif Nilsson, and Carina Blomström-Lundqvist
	A high quality of life is maintained late after Maze III surgery for atrial fibrillation (Original articles) Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2009;36:558-562. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Olena Dotsenko and Marjan Jahangiri
	Endogenous stem cells in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery (Review) Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2009;36:563-571. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Sylvain Vidal, Philippe Richebé, Laurent Barandon, Joachim Calderon, Nadir Tafer, Olivier Pouquet, Nelly Fournet, and Gérard Janvier
	Evaluation of continuous veno-venous hemofiltration for the treatment of cardiogenic shock in conjunction with acute renal failure after cardiac surgery (Original articles) Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2009;36:572-579. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Claudia Heilmann, Ulrich Geisen, Christoph Benk, Michael Berchtold-Herz, Georg Trummer, Christian Schlensak, Barbara Zieger, and Friedhelm Beyersdorf
	Haemolysis in patients with ventricular assist devices: major differences between systems (Original articles) Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2009;36:580-584. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Martin Martinek, Gernot Boehm, and Hans-Joachim Nesser
	Unusual complication after mitral valve surgery in a systemic lupus erythematosus patient — giant postoperative thoracic seroma (Images in cardio-thoracic surgery) Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2009;36:585. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Yasser Yehia Hegazy, Wael Hassanein, Marwan Sadek, and Juergen Ennker
	Impending rupture of the left atrium after impaction of left atrial ablation catheter (Images in cardio-thoracic surgery) Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2009;36:586. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Sylvain Rubin, Sebastien Sandu, Emmanuelle Durand, and Bernard Baehrel
	Uncommon functional ‘bicuspid’ aortic valve associated with an aortic root aneurysm (Images in cardio-thoracic surgery) Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2009;36:587. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Onnen Grauhan, Natalja Solowjowa, Rudolf Meyer, and Roland Hetzer
	Postoperative exostosis of the xiphoid process: a contraindication for precordial thump (Images in cardio-thoracic surgery) Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2009;36:588. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Efstratios I. Charitos, Ulrich Stierle, Hans-Hinrich Sievers, and Martin Misfeld
	Valve-sparing aortic root remodeling with partial preservation of the intact native aortic sinuses (How-to-do-it) Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2009;36:589-591. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

René Bombien, Tim Hümme, Michael Schünke, and Georg Lutter
	Percutaneous aortic valve replacement: computed tomography scan after valved stent implantation in human cadaver hearts (How-to-do-it) Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2009;36:592-594. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Enrico Ferrari, Christopher Sulzer, Elena Rizzo, and Ludwig Karl von Segesser
	Transcatheter stent-valve implantation in a stenotic pulmonary conduit via a sub-xyphoidian access (Case reports) Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2009;36:595-597. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Jae Kwang Shim, Yong Seon Choi, Kyung Jong Yoo, and Young Lan Kwak
	Carbon dioxide embolism induced right coronary artery ischaemia during off-pump obtuse marginalis artery grafting (Case reports) Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2009;36:598-599. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Jianxing He, Manyin Chen, Wenlong Shao, and Daoyuan Wang
	Surgical management of huge tracheo-oesophageal fistula with oesophagus segment in situ as replacement of the posterior membranous wall of the trachea (Case reports) Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2009;36:600-602. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Taro Kariya, Yasushi Imai, and Arata Murakami
	Surgical repair for unguarded tricuspid orifice: our successful experience using the Fontan procedure with total right ventricular exclusion (Letters to the Editor) Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2009;36:603. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Masanori Hirota, Masaaki Kawada, Kozo Ishino, and Shunji Sano
	Reply to Kariya et al. (Letters to the Editor) Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2009;36:604. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Khaled E. Al-Ebrahim
	Spontaneous right ventricular rupture in re-operative cardiac surgery (Letters to the Editor) Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2009;36:604-605. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Hany Elsayed, Mohamad Bashir, Thomas Thelogou, and Neeraj Mediratta
	Reply to Al-Ebrahim (Letters to the Editor) Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2009;36:605. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Dusko Nezic, Aleksandar Knezevic, and Milan Cirkovic
	Are we allowed to declare radial artery graft with a ‘string sign’ for a patent conduit? (Letters to the Editor) Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2009;36:605-606. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Brian F. Buxton and Philip A.R. Hayward
	Reply to Nezic et al. Interpretation of string sign in radial artery patency bypass grafts (Letters to the Editor) Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2009;36:606-607. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Vinod Venugopal, Andrew Ludman, Derek M. Yellon, and Derek J. Hausenloy
	Corrigendum to "‘Conditioning’ the heart during surgery" [Eur. J. Cardiothorac. Surg. 35 (6) (2009) 977–987] (Corrigendum) Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2009;36:608. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]

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