Meet the editor

Dr. Amer was educated at Khartoum, Sudan, and studied medicine at the University of Khartoum. He obtained an MD degree in general surgery from the University of Khartoum before immigrating to the United Kingdom in 1992. He obtained the FRCS (en) in 1994 and started a training program in cardiothoracic surgery for six years at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff. He was certified in 2000 as a fellow of the four Royal Colleges in

cardiothoracic surgery. He worked as a locum consultant cardiac surgeon for 3 years before his appointment as a pure thoracic surgeon in 2003 at Southampton General Hospital. Since then he has dedicated his career to video-assisted thoracic surgery. He was the founder of the VATS Programme at Southampton, and has since contributed to pushing the envelope of VATS to find new indications for the procedure. His seminal work is in VATS mediastinal nodal dissection and anatomy of the recurrent laryngeal nerves in the chest.

Contents

Indications of Surgery in Pneumothorax

Primary Spontaneous Pneumothorax, a Clinical Challenge *by Fabian Andres Giraldo Vallejo, Rubby Romero, Melissa Mejia* 

Video-Assisted Thoracoscopy in the Management of Primary and

*by Kostantinos Poulikidis, Lee Gerson, John Costello and Wickii T. Vigneswaran*

*by Hany Hasan Elsayed*

*and Estefania Quijano*

Secondary Pneumothorax

Catamenial Pneumothorax *by Sezai Celik and Ezel Erşen*

*by Khalid Amer*

Controversies in Pneumothorax Treatment

**Preface III**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 13**

**Chapter 3 27**

**Chapter 4 41**

**Chapter 5 55**
