• Esophageal Disease
• Lung cancer
• Minimally invasive thoracic surgery
• Emphysema
• Pulmonary diseases
• Cardiovascular disease
• General thoracic disease

Esophageal Disease

Wiechmann RJ, Ferguson MK, Naunheim KS, Hazelrigg SR, Mack MJ, Aronoff RJ, Weyant RJ, Santucci T, Macherey R, Video-assisted surgical management of achalasia of the esophagus.  J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 1999 Nov;118(5):916-23.

Szwerc MF, Wiechmann RJ, Maley RH, Santucci TS, Macherey RS Reoperative laparoscopic antireflux surgery.  Surgery 1999 Oct;126(4):723-8; discussion 728-9

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Lung cancer

Bunker ML, Raab SS, Silverman JF.  The diagnosis and significance of visceral pleural invasion in lung carcinoma. Histologic predictors and the role of elastic stains.  Am J Clin Pathol. 1999 Dec;112(6):777-83.

Smith AR, Raab SS, Silverman JF.  Fine-needle aspiration cytologic features of pseudovascular adenoid squamous-cell carcinoma of the lung.  Diagn Cytopathol 1999 Oct;21(4):265-70 

Shackney SE, Smith CA, Pollice A, Levitt M, Magovern JA, Wiechmann RJ, Silverman J, Sweeney LGenetic evolutionary staging of early non-small cell lung cancer: the P53 --> HER-2/NEU --> ras sequence. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 Aug;118(2):259-67

Chen A, Galloway M, d'Amato T, Colonias A, Karlovits S, Quinn A, Santucci T, Kalnicki S, Brown D.  Intraoperative 125I brachytherapy for high-risk stage I non-small cell lung carcinoma. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 1999 Jul 15;44(5):1057-63

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Minimally invasive thoracic surgery

Russo L, Wiechmann RJ, Magovern JA, Szydlowski GW, Mack MJ, Naunheim KS Early chest tube removal after video-assisted thoracoscopic wedge resection of the lung. Ann Thorac Surg 1998 Nov;66(5):1751-4

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Emphysema

Naunheim KS, Hazelrigg SR, Kaiser LR, Keenan RJ, Bavaria JE, Osterloh J, Keller CA.  Risk analysis for thoracoscopic lung volume reduction: a multi-institutional experience. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2000 Jun 1;17(6):673-679.

Naunheim KS, Kaiser LR, Bavaria JE, Hazelrigg SR, Magee MJ, Keenan RJ, Osterloh JF, Boley TM, Keller CA  Long-term survival after thoracoscopic lung volume reduction: a multiinstitutional review.  Ann Thorac Surg. 1999 Dec;68(6):2026-31; discussion 2031-2.

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Cardiovascular disease

Mack MJ, Magovern JA, Acuff TA, Tennison DM, Tinnerman EJ, Osborne JA.  Results of graft patency by immediate angiography in minimally invasive coronary artery surgery.  Ann Thorac Surg 1999 Aug;68(2):383-9; discussion 389-90

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General thoracic disease

Lin JC, Wiechmann RJ, Szwerc MF, Hazelrigg SR, Ferson PF, Naunheim KS, Keenan RJ, Yim AP, Rendina E, DeGiacomo T, Coloni GF, Venuta F, Macherey RS, Bartley S Diagnostic and therapeutic video-assisted thoracic surgery resection of pulmonary metastases.  Surgery 1999 Oct;126(4):636-41; discussion 641-2

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