Forthcoming Focused Issue: Extended Pulmonary Resections For T4 Non-Small-Cell-Lung-Cancer edited by Dr. Fabio Davoli and Prof. Sai Yendamuri

Guest editors:

The preliminary scheduled outline of the focused issue:

Preface
Extreme Thoracic Surgery: the past and the present of extended pulmonary resections
Fabio Davoli, S.Maria delle Croci Teaching Hospital of Ravenna, Italy

Sai Yendamuri
Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, USA

Review article
Diagnosis and staging of locally advanced NSCLC
Andrea Viti, Don Calabria Research Hospital, Negrar Verona, Italy

Making decision on T4 NSCLC: the Onchologist perspective
Silvia Vecchiarelli, Ausl Romagna, S.Maria delle Croci Teaching Hospital of Ravenna, Italy

Surgical Technique
SVC resection and reconstruction in NSCLC invasion
Pankaj Kumar Garg, University College of Medical Sciences, Delhi, India

Transsternal transpericardial approach for locally advanced thoracic malignancies
Fabio Davoli, S.Maria delle Croci Teaching Hospital of Ravenna, Italy

Tracheal Sleeve Pneumonectomy for NSCLC: a surgical challenge
Franco Stella, S.Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Bologna, Italy

Surgical Technique / Video Article
Left Atrial resection and Pulmonary Arterioplasty for locally advanced NSCLC
Sai Yendamuri, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, USA

Review / Surgical Technique
Surgical management of T4 Lung Cancer invading the Thoracic Aorta
Carlson Arudas, First Saint Petersburg state Medical University, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Extended Pulmonary Resections with Cardiopulmonary Bypass
Anthony Picone, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, USA

Note: More topics will be included in the future.