Operative Techniques in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery provides richly illustrated articles on techniques in thoracic
and cardiovascular surgery written by renowned surgeons. Each issue presents cardiothoracic topics in adult cardiac, congenital, and
general thoracic surgery. Each specialty of interest to the thoracic and cardiovascular surgeon is explored through two different approaches
to a specific surgical challenge. Each article is thoroughly illustrated with original line drawings, actual intraoperative photos, and
supporting tables and graphs.
2008 Topics, Volume 13
Adult Cardiac Topics
Aortic arch replacement procedures
Approaches to pericardiectomy
Artificial chordae tendineae
Composite root replacement with a mechanical conduit
Maze
procedure
Surgical fenestration for dissection
Congenital Heart Disease Topics
Anomalous origin of a coronary artery
from the aorta
Ebstein's anomaly
RVOT reconstruction
Transposition of the great arteries
Variations on the Nikaidoh
operations for transposition of the great artery, ventricular septal defect, and pulmonary stenosis
General Thoracic Surgery
Topics
Superior vena cava resection and reconstruction for thoracic malignancies compared with left atrial resection and reconstruction
for non-small cell lung cancer
Primary repair of esophageal perforation compared with esophageal diversion for esophageal perforation
Technique of combined pulmonary artery and bronchial sleeve resection
Surgical management of subglottic stenosis compared with
surgical repair of iatrogenic cervical tracheal stenosis
Transsternal approaches for anatomic pulmonary resections
Robotic
pulmonary lobectomy compared with video-assisted thoracoscopic segmentectomy
