**Meet the editor**

Michael S. Firstenberg, MD is currently an Assistant Professor of Surgery and Integrative Medicine at the Northeast Ohio Medical University and a full-time Cardiothoracic surgeon at Akron City Hospital. He was previously on the faculty at The Ohio State University where, in addition to being an active cardiac surgeon, he was active on numerous University, College, and Health

system committees. He received his Thoracic surgery training at Ohio State with additional training at The Cleveland Clinic. Michael is currently active within numerous other professional organizations and has co-authored >100 manuscripts, lectured worldwide on extra-corporeal support, and he serves on the editorial board of several Journals. He was recently nominated for the prestigious Thoracic Surgery Resident Association Socrates Teaching Award.

Contents

**Preface VII**

Chapter 1 **Anesthesia for Thoracic Surgical Procedures 3**

Norman and Ronaldo Purugganan

Chapter 3 **Postoperative Care and Complications After**

Chapter 4 **Management of Malignant Pleural Effusion 85**

Hidir Esme and Mustafa Calik

**Operative Therapies 129** Kelvin K.W. Lau and Calvin S.H. Ng

**Thoracic Surgery 57** Anand Iyer and Sumit Yadav

**Approach 109**

Ihsan Alloubi

Chapter 2 **Evolution of Surgical Approaches for Lung Resection 47** Trevor Williams and Wickii T. Vigneswaran

Chapter 5 **Superior Sulcus Tumour with some Emphasis on the Anterior**

Haralabos Parissis, Alan Soo and Bassel Al-Alao

Chapter 6 **Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma and the Role of Non–**

Chapter 7 **Recent Advances in Surgical Techniques for Multimodality Treatment of Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma 167**

Chapter 8 **Thoracic Hydatid Cyst: Clinical Presentation, Radiological Features and Surgical Treatment 195**

Christos Asteriou, Athanassios Kleontas and Nikolaos Barbetakis

January Tsai, Teresa Moon, Shital Vachhani, Javier Lasala, Peter H

**Section 1 Thoracic Surgery 1**
