**TOPICS IN THORACIC SURGERY**

Edited by **Paulo F. Guerreiro Cardoso**

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http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/1505 Edited by Paulo F. Guerreiro Cardoso

#### **Contributors**

Paulo Cardoso, Petre Vlah-Horea Botianu, Alexandru-Mihail Botianu, Reubendra Jeganathan, Thomas Lynch, Jim McGuigan, Alan D. L. Sihoe, Khalid Amer, Andrew Seely, Tim Ramsay, Jelena Ivanovic, Nikolaos Barbetakis, Gordana Taleska, Trajanka Trajkovska, Giuseppe Miserocchi, Egidio Beretta, James Maloney, Joshua Hermsen, Nicole Strieter, Francesco Puma, Jacopo Vannucci, Michele Torre, Patricio Varela, Vincenzo Jasonni, Giovanni Rapuzzi, Akira Masaoka, Satoshi Kondo, Victor E. Laubach, Ashish K. Sharma, Christine L. Lau, Matthew L. Stone, Lucas G. Guillermo Fernandez, David R. Jones, James M. Isbell, Yu-Chung Wu, Jung-Jyh Hung, Seyed Mohammad Reza Hashemian, Paul Bresser, Coen Van Kan, Mart N. Van Der Plas, Jaap J. Kloek, Herre J. Reesink, Sevval Eren, Hidir Esme, Anand Alister Joseph R, Donal Harney, Kuang-Yao Yang, Shao-Jung Hsu, Geesche Somuncuoglu, Stefanie Veit, Takashi Iwata, Govindan Raghuraman, Shanawaz Abdul Rasheed, Dariusz Sagan, Jerzy Tarach, Andrzej Nowakowski, Maria Klatka, Andrzej Drop, Janusz Klatka, Elzbieta Czekajska-Chehab, Beata Chrapko

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Topics in Thoracic Surgery Edited by Paulo F. Guerreiro Cardoso p. cm. ISBN 978-953-51-0010-2 eBook (PDF) ISBN 978-953-51-6796-9
