The Journal of the Japanese Association for Chest Surgery 33(4) 476-481 2019
<p>A 57-year-old man presented with a 36-mm mass lesion in the anterior mediastinum detected by chest computed tomography during follow-up for a thoracic aortic aneurysm. Invasive thymoma was suspected and extended thymectomy was performed through...
The Annals of thoracic surgery 107(6) 1656-1662 Jan 2019
[BACKGROUND] Air leakage still remains a major problem in lung resection despite the introduction of surgical sealants. We have developed a novel sealant based on hydrophobically modified Alaska pollock-derived gelatin (ApGltn), which showed high ...
The Journal of the Japanese Association for Chest Surgery 32(6) 753-757 2018
<p>The patient was a 43-year-old woman who had undergone unilateral ovariectomy for a right ovarian granulosa cell tumor two years previously. Follow-up CT revealed a well-circumscribed and homogenous mediastinal tumor, of 21×14×26 mm. The tumor w...
