Part I. Diagnostic Work-Up of the Thoracic Surgery Patient: 1. Lung function assessment John E. Pilling; 2. Endobronchial and endoscopic ultrasound for mediastinal staging Robert C. Rintoul and Nicholas R. Carroll; 3. Staging of lung cancer: mediastinoscopy and VATS Gaetano Rocco and Giuseppe De Luca; 4. Access to the chest cavity: safeguards and pitfalls Laura Socci and Antonio E. Martin-Ucar; Part II. Upper Airway: 5. Therapeutic bronchoscopy Keyvan Moghissi; 6. Tracheal stenosis, masses and tracheoesophageal fistula Timothy M. Millington and Douglas J. Mathisen; Part III. Benign Conditions of the Lung: 7. Congenital and developmental lung malformations Naziha Khen-Dunlop, Guillaume Lezmi, Christophe Delacourt and Yann Revillon; 8. Lung volume reduction surgery for the treatment of advanced emphysema Nathaniel Marchetti and Gerard J. Criner; 9. Surgical aspects of infectious conditions of the lung Elaine Teh and Elizabeth Belcher; 10. Treatment of hemoptisis Odiri Eneje and Katharine Hurt; Part IV. Malignant Conditions of the Lung: 11. Evaluation of solitary pulmonary nodule Dustin M. Walters and David R. Jones; 12. Lung cancer staging Bilal H. Kirmani and Aman S. Coonar; 13. Pathologic consideration in lung malignancy Doris M. Rassl; 14. Medical treatment of lung cancer (neo and adjuvant chemoradiotherapy) Athanasios G. Pallis and Mary E. R. O'Brien; 15. Superior vena cava obstruction: etiology, clinical presentation and principles of treatment Federico Venuta, Marco Anile, Miriam Patella and Erino A. Rendina; 16. Robotics in thoracic surgery Marlies Keijzers, Peyman Sardari Nia and Jos G. Maessen; 17. Pulmonary metastasectomy Michel Gonzalez, Jean Yannis Perentes and Thorsten Krueger; Part V. Diseases of the Pleura: 18. Tube thoracostomy: evidence-based management of chest drains following pulmonary surgery Alessandro Brunelli; 19. Primary spontaneous pneumothorax Giuseppe Cardillo, Gerard Ngome Enang, Francesco Carleo, Bernardo Ciamberlano, Pasquale Ialongo, Aldo Morrone and Massimo Martelli; 20. Bronchopleural fistula management Steven M. Woolley and Susannah M. Love; Part VI. Diseases of the Chest Wall and Diaphragm: 21. Surgery for pectus and other congenital chest wall disorders Jakub Kadlec, Jean-Marie Wihlm and Aman S. Coonar; 22. Eventration, central bilateral diaphragmatic paralysis, and congenital hernia in adults Francoise Le Pimpec-Barthes, Pierre Mordant, Alex Arame, Alain Badia, Ciprian Pricopi, Anne Hernigou and Marc Riquet; Part VII. Disorders of the Esophagus: 23. Benign esophageal disease Donn H. Spight and Mithran S. Sukumar; 24. Esophageal cancer Gail Darling; 25. Esophageal perforation Michael J. Shackcloth and George John; Part VIII. Other Topics: 26. Thoracic trauma Gregor J. Kocher and Ralph A. Schmid; 27. Thoracic sympathectomy in the treatment of hyperhidrosis John Agzarian and Yaron Shargall.
