**FRONT LINES OF THORACIC SURGERY**

Edited by **Stefano Nazari**

**INTECHOPEN.COM**

http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/2401 Edited by Stefano Nazari

#### **Contributors**

Wickii Thambiah Vigneswaran, Hitoshi Hirose, Giacomo Batignani, Pierluigi Stefàno, Stefano Romagnoli, Donata Villari, Vladimir Shipulin, Vitaly Kazakov, Alexanter Lezhnev, Irina Suhodolo, Sergey Gutor, Vadim Babokin, Boris Kozlov, Francesco Della Corte, Calogero Mendola, Gianmaria Cammarota, Antonio Messina, Michael S. S Firstenberg, Jason Rousseau, Cobi Heijnen, Maria Hegeman, Marcus Schultz, Adrianus Van Vught, Sergey Yurevich Boldyrev, Francesco Formica, Stefano Nazari, Edward Chen, Bradley Leshnower, Knut Möller, Zhanqi Zhao, Inéz Frerichs, Ullrich Müller-Lisse, Claudius Stahl, Masanori Hirota, Shintaro Katahira, Yasuhisa Fukada, Taichi Kondo, Yuichi Notomi, Tadashi Isomura, Joji Hoshino, Takayuki Gyoten, German Peces-Barba, Felipe Villar-Álvarez, Jeffrey Fineman, Peter Oishi, Aida Field-Ridley, Mohamed T Ghorbel, Gianni D Angelini, Massimo Caputo, James Mahoney, Tam Dao, Emily A Voelkel, Jenny Ann Bannister, Raja Gopaldas, Laszlo Göbölös, Elizabeth Johnson, Antonia Charchanti, Maria Piagkou, Theodore Troupis, Ing-Sh Chiu, Chi-Ren Hung, Hugo Heij, Matthijs Oomen

#### **© The Editor(s) and the Author(s) 2012**

The moral rights of the and the author(s) have been asserted.

All rights to the book as a whole are reserved by INTECH. The book as a whole (compilation) cannot be reproduced, distributed or used for commercial or non-commercial purposes without INTECH's written permission. Enquiries concerning the use of the book should be directed to INTECH rights and permissions department (permissions@intechopen.com).

Violations are liable to prosecution under the governing Copyright Law.

Individual chapters of this publication are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License which permits commercial use, distribution and reproduction of the individual chapters, provided the original author(s) and source publication are appropriately acknowledged. If so indicated, certain images may not be included under the Creative Commons license. In such cases users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. More details and guidelines concerning content reuse and adaptation can be foundat http://www.intechopen.com/copyright-policy.html.

#### **Notice**

Statements and opinions expressed in the chapters are these of the individual contributors and not necessarily those of the editors or publisher. No responsibility is accepted for the accuracy of information contained in the published chapters. The publisher assumes no responsibility for any damage or injury to persons or property arising out of the use of any materials, instructions, methods or ideas contained in the book.

First published in Croatia, 2012 by INTECH d.o.o. eBook (PDF) Published by IN TECH d.o.o. Place and year of publication of eBook (PDF): Rijeka, 2019. IntechOpen is the global imprint of IN TECH d.o.o. Printed in Croatia

Legal deposit, Croatia: National and University Library in Zagreb

Additional hard and PDF copies can be obtained from orders@intechopen.com

Front Lines of Thoracic Surgery Edited by Stefano Nazari p. cm. ISBN 978-953-307-915-8 eBook (PDF) ISBN 978-953-51-6761-7
