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Editorial Commentary 
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation & lung transplant outcomes: COVID-19 pandemic
Hamna Javed, Iqbal Ratnani, Salim Surani
Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery  
2024;
6:
21  
Case Report 
Salvage tracheal surgery for symptomatic tracheal lesion, a rare primary pulmonary myxoid sarcoma: case report
Antoine Sion, Nicolas Venissac, Clément Fournier, Romain Dubois, Rias Akkad, Ecaterina Surmei, Axel Plaisant, Julien De Wolf
Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery  
2024;
6:
20  
Case Report 
Indocyanine green (ICG) fiducial coil guided wedge resection of recurrent adenocarcinoma in a patient with prior segmentectomy: a case report
Vinay Padbidri, Alda Huang, Nelly Chow, Sixto Arias, Nestor Villamizar
Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery  
2024;
6:
19  
Review Article 
Actionable adverse event monitoring and feedback to improve thoracic surgical care
Daniel Jones, Zubair Ahmadzai, Andrew J. E. Seely
Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery  
2024;
6:
18  
Review Article 
The rising role of cryobiopsy in diagnosis of pulmonary disorders: a narrative review
Sylvia S. Yong, Christopher M. Kapp
Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery  
2024;
6:
17  
Editorial Commentary 
Salvage lung resection: if you’re not first, you’re last
Hannah Kooperkamp, C. Matthew Kinsey
Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery  
2024;
6:
16  
Editorial Commentary 
Computed tomography injection of technetium 99m macroaggregated albumin—an underutilized lung nodule localization strategy in pediatric patients
Casey Briggs, Brett Curran, Michael Ishitani
Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery  
2024;
6:
15  
Case Report 
Repeat venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in an infant presenting with complex airway foreign body: a case report
Laura Daniela Smith, Shelly H. Pecorella, T. Wesley Templeton, Susan R. Vishneski
Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery  
2024;
6:
14  
Review Article 
Identifying and improving disparities in esophageal cancer care: a narrative review
Sadia Tasnim, Monisha Sudarshan
Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery  
2024;
6:
13  
Review Article 
Localization approaches to improve surgical resection of peripheral pulmonary lesions: a clinical practice review
Abhilash Bhat Marakini, Megan Satterfield, Graham G. Stockdale, Bryan S. Benn
Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery  
2024;
6:
12  
Review Article 
Surgical approach for ground glass opacities
Linda Chang Qu, Ahmad S. Ashrafi
Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery  
2024;
6:
10  
Original Article 
A cost analysis of robotic lung resection versus stereotactic radiosurgery
Benjamin Wei, Ammar Asban, Carter Bunch, Dustin Eads, John Russell, Rongbing Xie, John M. Stahl, Kai He, Juan A. Muñoz-Largacha, James M. Donahue
Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery  
2024;
6:
9  
Editorial 
Defying lung transplant current challenges
George Makdisi
Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery  
2024;
6:
8  
Review Article 
Robotic anatomic pulmonary resection—the data
Ammara A. Watkins, David Rice, Kathleen M. Fuentes, Dena Shehata, Michael S. Kent
Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery  
2024;
6:
7  
Original Article 
Streamlining care with single anesthetic robotic lung cancer diagnosis and resection
Amelia W. Wong, Elizabeth Y. Wang, Abigail Fong, Fahim Pyarali, Trevor R. Ideta, Bradley Tokeshi, Taryne A. Imai
Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery  
2024;
6:
6  
Original Article 
Hierarchal clustering for the identification of distinct rib fracture patterns
Kiersten C. Woodyard De Brito, Kieran J. Phelan, Aaron Seitz, Jay Nathwani, Christopher F. Janowak
Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery  
2024;
6:
5  
Original Article 
Prolonged mechanical ventilation after lung transplant: predictors and impact on survival
Lucille Hu, Kamal S. Ayyat, Noah Weingarten, Toshihiro Okamoto, Carli Lehr, Marie M. Budev, Usman Ahmad, James J. Yun, Kenneth R. McCurry, Haytham Elgharably
Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery  
2024;
6:
4  
Original Article 
The impact of serum sodium levels on short and long-term outcomes after lung resection for non-small cell lung cancer: a retrospective cohort study
Asmita Singhania, Marcus Renshaw, Marcus Taylor, Annabel Sharkey, Somshekar Ganti
Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery  
2024;
6:
3  
Surgical Technique 
Vein-first strategy for thoracoscopic lung segmentectomy under use of three-dimensional reconstruction of computed tomography
Hiroyuki Oizumi, Takayuki Sasage, Satoshi Takamori, Jun Suzuki, Hikaru Watanabe, Hirohisa Kato
Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery  
2024;
6:
1  
Surgical Technique 
Intrathoracic muscle flap transposition: an original surgical technique
Eleonora Coviello, Antonio Giulio Napolitano, Domenico Pourmolkara, Silvia Ceccarelli, Claudia Colafigli, Francesco Puma
Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery  
2023;
5:
50  
Review Article 
Endoscopic treatment for lung cancer in medically inoperable patients
Tsukasa Ishiwata, Kazuhiro Yasufuku
Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery  
2023;
5:
49  
Editorial Commentary 
Challenges in diagnosis and management of patients with synchronous multiple primary lung cancers
Nika Samadzadeh Tabrizi, Thomas Fabian
Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery  
2023;
5:
48  
Review Article 
Lung cancer screening—contemporary issues: a narrative review
Sonia M. Baeza, Stephen Lam
Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery  
2023;
5:
47