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Poster Presentations • Tuesday, October 28, 1997Thoracic Surgery
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TEN-YEAR EXPERIENCE WITH MERSILENE REINFORCED STERNAL WOUND CLOSURE
Charles Antinori, MD; M Tarnoff, MD; M Goodman, MD; M Abbate, BS; V Lotano, MD; K Mortman, MD; J Santaspirit, MD; J Kuchler, MD; V Manuele, MD; J Heim, MD; D DiPaola, MD; D Villanueva, MD—Department of Surgery, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Cooper Hospital/University Medical Center, Camden, New Jersey, USA
VIDEO-ASSISTED THORACIC SURGERY: STUDY OF 100 CONSECUTIVE CASES
José L Bravo, MD; JM Garcia Prim, MD; N Mañes Bonet, MD; A Alix Trueba, MD—Thoracic Surgery Service, Fundacion Jimenez Diaz, Madrid, Spain
INFLAMMATORY PSEUDOTUMORS OF THE LUNG
Robert J Cerfolio, MD; MS Allen, MD; AG Nascimento, MD; CD Deschamps, MD; VF Trastek, MD; PC Pairolero, MD—Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
LONG-TERM RESULTS OF SURGICAL CORRECTION OF PECTUS EXCAVATUM
Cheng-Lung Chen, MD—Division of Thoracic Surgery, Cardinal Tien Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan
ENDOVASCULAR PULMONARY ARTERY BALLOON CONTROL DURING VIDEO LOBECTOMY IN SWINE
A Alan Conlan, MD; BR Soller, PhD; C Hsi, MD; TJ Vander Salm, MD—University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester, MA, USA
VIDEO MORCELLATION OF HUMAN LOBECTOMY SFECIMENS: AN EX-VIVO STUDY
A Alan Conlan, MD, FCCP; BR Soller, PhD; C Hsi, MD; AE Fraire, MD, FCCP—University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester, MA, USA
PNEUMONECTOMY FOR LUNG METASTASES
Dominique Grunenwald, MD; L Spaggiari, MD, PhD; P Girard, MD; D Debrosse, MD; P Baldeyrou, MD—Department of Thoracic Surgery, IMM Choisy, Paris, France
PULMONARY METASTASES OF ENDOCRINE ORIGIN: THE ROLE OF SURGERY
Junaid Hameed Khan; DB McElhinney; OH Clark; SH Merrick—Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of California, San Francisco; San Francisco, CA, USA
USE OF VIDEOTHORACOSCOPY IN OPEN THORACOTOMY: PRELIMINARY REPORT ON AN EVOLVING CONCEPT
Hui-Ping Liu, MD, FCCP, PJ Lin, MD, FCCP, J-J Chu, MD, FCCP, H-C Hsieh, C-H Chang, MD, FCCP—Div. of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung Medical College, Taipei, Taiwan
SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN CHILDREN AND ADULTS PULMONARY HYDATID DISEASE
Vahid Montazcic, MD, FCCP—Thoracic Surgery Department, Immam Khomeinie Hospital, Tabriz, Iran
SURGICAL TREATMENT FOR MULTIPLE PRIMARY LUNG CANCERS
Morihito Okada, MD; N Tsubota, MD; M Yoshimura, MD; Y Miyamoto, MD—Hyogo Medical Center for Adults, Akashi City, Hyogo, Japan
RESPONSE OF SEROSAL SURFACES TO TALC: IMPLICATIONS FOR TALC PLEURODESIS
Arthur S Palmer, MD; AJ Miller, MD; SI Roth, MD; A DeBoer, MD; R Greene, BS—Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois, USA
ROLE OF THYMECTOMY IN THE TREATMENT OF MYASTHENIA GRAVIS
B Carter Rogers, MD; Joseph W Lewis, Jr, MD; Stanton B Elias, MD—Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI USA
ANTERIOR PATCH TRACHEOPLASTY: PERICARDIUM VS HOMOGRAFT AORTA
K Sun, K Bando, JW Brown—Cardiothoracic Surgery, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
PROSPECTIVE TRIAL OF DIFFUSING CAPACITY AND OXYGEN CONSUMPTION IN THE PREDICTION OF PULMONARY COMPLICATIONS AFTER LUNG RESECTION
Jun Wang, MD, R Ultmann, RN, J Olak, MD, FCCP, MK Ferguson, MD, FCCP—The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA