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SUNDAY 8 June 2008

09:00 - 17:00 Salone del Podesta		Postgraduate Course


SUNDAY 8 June 2008

17:30 - 18:30 Salone del Podesta		Opening Ceremony


SUNDAY 8 June 2008

18:30 - 20:00 Ground Floor - Open Courtyard		Opening Reception


SUNDAY 8 June 2008

08:30 - 17:30 Rooms 36 - 38		Sunday Posters Greek Pioneer Prize (500 euro) for best poster
	1	(33020) LONG TERM SURVIVAL AFTER VATS AND OPEN PULMONARY METASTATECTOMY * Douglas West; * William S Walker Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
	2	(32935) THORACIC METASTASECTOMY FOR THYROID MALIGNANCIES John R Porterfield; * Stephen D Cassivi; Dirk R Larson; Dennis A Wigle; K R Shen; Francis C Nichols; Mark S Allen; Clive S Grant; Claude Deschamps Mayo Clinic, Rochester, United States
	3	(32908) REACTIVITY OF INTEGRIN-LINKED KINASE AND THE RECURRENCE OF NSCLC AFTER BRONCHOPLASTIC RESECTION * Stefan B Watzka; Irene Pötsch; Ulrike Setinek; Heidi Cantonati; * Dantcho Janakiev; * Peter H Hollaus; * Michael R Müller Otto Wagner Hospital, Vienna, Austria
	4	(32982) LARGE SCALE TISSUE MICROARRAY STUDY OF COPY NUMBER CHANGES OF C-MYC AND EGFR ONCOGENES IN OPERATED ON NSCLC PATIENTS-CLINICAL IMPLICATION Radostina V Cherneva³; * Danail B Petrov²; Ivanka I Dimova¹; Ognian B Georgiev³; Draga I Toncheva¹ ¹Department of Medical Genetics, Sofia, Bulgaria; ²Department of Thoracic Surgery, Sofia, Bulgaria; ³Department of Internal Medicine, Sofia, Bulgaria; ⁴Medical University, Sofia, Bulgaria
	5	(32741) PREOPERATIVE INTRATHORACIC LYMPH NODE STAGING IN PATIENTS WITH NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER: ACCURACY OF INTEGRATED PET/CT * Andrea Billè¹; Ettore Pelosi²; Andrea Skanjeti²; Vincenzo Arena²; * Luca Errico¹; * Piero Borasio¹; Maurizio Mancin²; Francesco Ardissone¹ ¹University of Turin Department of Clinical and Biological Sciences Thoracic Surgery Unit, Orbassano, Turin, Italy; ²PET Center IRMET, Turin, Italy
	6	(33042) REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTES (TREG CELLS) IN NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER: PROGNOSTIC ROLE AND THEIR INDUCTION BY TUMOR MASS * Akif Turna²; Bayram Kiran²; Alper Yener³; * Atilla Gurses¹; Selim Badur² ¹Yedikule Teaching Hospital for Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery Department of Thoracic Surgery, Istanbul, Turkey; ²Istanbul University Istanbul Medical Faculty Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Istanbul, Afghanistan; ³Istanbul University Istanbul Medical Faculty Student Research Club, Istanbul, Turkey
	7	(32734) DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF NEW T DEFINITION IN LUNG CANCER STAGING. * Konrad Pawelczyk; * Marek Marciniak; * Grzegorz Kacprzak; * Jerzy Kolodziej Wroclaw Medical University Departament of Thoracic Surgery Wroclaw Thoracic Surgery Centre, Wroclaw, Poland
	8	(32876) EXAMINATION OF THE SUPRACLAVICULAR NODES IN NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER (NSCLC); COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES * Lukasz Hauer¹; * Jolanta Hauer¹; Andrea D'Amico²; Juliusz Pankowski¹; Artur Szlubowski¹; * Jaroslaw Kuzdzal¹; Tomasz Nabialek¹; * Marcin Zielinski¹ ¹Pulmonary Hospital, Zakopane, Poland; ²Maria Sklodowska Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Gliwice, Poland
	9	(32800) LONG TERM SURVIVAL OF 114 PATIENTS WITH METASTATIC COLORECTAL CARCINOMA AFTER EXTENDED 1318NM LASER LUNG METASTASECTOMY UP TO 62 METASTASES * Axel Rolle¹; Arpad Pereszlenyi¹; Beata Bis¹; Rainer Koch²; Andreas Schilling¹ ¹Centre of Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery, Coswig, Germany; ²Carl Carus University of Dresden, Dresden, Germany
	10	(32972) THE ROLE OF 99M TECHNETIUM- HEXAKIS-2-METHOXYISOBUTYLISONITRILE (MIBI) IN THE DETECTION OF NEOPLASTIC LUNG LESIONS * Mario Santini¹; Alfonso Fiorello¹; * Giovanni Vicidomini¹; Pier F Rambaldi²; Luigi Busiello¹; Pasqualina Sannino²; Anna Perrone¹; Maria G Giuliano²; Gaetana Messina¹ ¹Thoracic Surgery Unit Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy; ²Nuclear Medicine Unit Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy
	11	(32664) SLEEVE LOBECTOMY OR PNEUMONECTOMY AFTER INDUCTION CHEMO-RADIOTHERAPY FOR NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER: LONG-TERM RESULTS OF A DOUBLE-CENTRE EXPERIENCE. * Stefano Margaritora¹; * Alessandro Marra²; Giacomo Cusumano¹; Venanzio Porziella¹; Elisa Meacci¹; Maria Letizia Vita¹; Alessio Piraino¹; A. Haeussler-Thoele²; L Hillejan²; Pierluigi Granone¹ ¹Division of General Thoracic Surgery Catholic University of Rome, Rome, Italy; ²Division of General Thoracic Surgery Klinikum St Georg, Ostercappeln, Germany
	12	(32787) DOES A NEGATIVE PET/CT PRECLUDE N2 DISEASE IN NSCLC? A SINGLE CENTRE EXPERIENCE. Erdal Tasci¹; Alpay Orki¹; Suat Patlakoglu¹; Attila Ozdemir¹; Okan Falay²; Senol Urek¹; Guven Olgac¹; * Cemal Asim Kutlu¹ ¹Sureyyapasa Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery Teaching Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey; ²Medica Imaging Centre, Istanbul, Turkey
	13	(32954) EVALUATION OF PLEURAL LAVAGE CYTOLOGY AT THORACOTOMY AS A PROGNOSTIC FACTOR Rie Nakahara¹; Haruko Suzuki¹; Yoshinori Ishikawa¹; Haruhisa Mstsuguma¹; Seiji Igarashi¹; Kohei Yokoi¹ ¹Tochigi Cancer Center, Utsunomiya, Japan; ²Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
	14	(32956) THORACOSCOPIC INTRAPLEURAL PERFUSION HYPERTHERMIC CHEMOTHERAPY FOR PLEURAL DISSEMINATION WITH NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER Hyeong Ryul Kim; Sung Kyu Cho; * Sanghoon Jheon; * Sook Whan Sung Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Korea (South)
	15	(32689) POSTOPERATIVE PULMONARY REHABILITATION: ITS ROLE AFTER LUNG RESECTION IN COPD PATIENTS * Stefano Margaritora; Venanzio Porziella; Elisa Meacci; MariaLetizia Vita; Alessio Piraino; Stefano Cafarotti; Giacomo Cusumano; Pierluigi Granone Division of Thoracic Surgery Catholic University of Rome, Roma, Italy
	16	(32774) IS THERE A ROLE FOR LUNG METASTASECTOMY IN THE ELDERLY ? * Francesco Leo; Roberto Gasparri; * Francesco Petrella; * Domenico Galetta; * Alessandro Borri; * Paolo Scanagatta; * Giulia Veronesi; Piergiorgio Solli; * Lorenzo Spaggiari Thoracic Surgery Department European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy
	17	(32976) THROMBOCYTOSIS, AS A NEGATIVE PROGNOSTIC VALUE IN LUNG CANCER, SIGNIFICANTLY CORRELATES WITH SMOKING HABITS * József Furák¹; Anett Bársony¹; * Antal Wolfárd¹; * Imre Troján¹; Ernest Nagy¹; István Németh²; László Tiszlavicz²; György Lázár¹ ¹Department of Surgery University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary; ²Department of Pathology University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
	18	(33003) REPEATED METASTASES SURGERY WITH THOROUGHGOING TECHNICAL RADICALITY CAN ENHANCE SURVIVAL OF PATIENTS WITH PULMONARY METASTASIZING OSTEOSARCOMA * Klaus D Diemel; Joern Halberstadt; Christiane M Albrecht; Masaki Nakashima; * Detlev Branscheid Grosshansdorf Lung Center, Grosshansdorf, Hamburg, Germany
	19	(32739) LONG TERM RESULTS AFTER SURGICAL RESECTION OF BONE SARCOMA PULMONARY METASTASES. * Carlos E Garcia Franco; Akiko Tamura Ezkurra; * Wenceslao Torre; Luis Sierrasesumaga; Mikel San Julian; Javier Pardo; Francisco Guillen; Salvador Martin Algarra Clinica Universitaria de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
	20	(32971) INFLUENCE OF THE AGE ON ACCURACY OF FDG-PET IN MEDIASTINAL STAGING OF NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER Huseyin Melek; Mehmet Z Gunluoglu; Adalet Demir; Hasan V Kara; Baris Medetoglu; Seyit i Dincer Yedikule Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery Education and Research Hospital Department of Thoracic Surgery, istanbul, Turkey
	21	(32793) THE ROLE OF FDG-PET IN PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION ON INDETERMINATE PULMONARY LESIONS Giorgio Cavallesco; Pio Maniscalco; Francesco Quarantotto; * Filippo Acerbis; Claudia Brombin; Caterina Bottoli; Mirco Santini; Gianfranco Azzena Department of General and Thoracic Surgery Istituto di Clinica Chirurgica Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria S Anna, Ferrara, Italy
	22	(32506) THE ROLE OF MUSCLE FLAP IN PREVENTING BRONCHUS STUMP INSUFFICIENCY AFTER PNEUMONECTOMY FOR MALIGNANT PLEURAL MESOTHELIOMA IN HIGH RISK PATIENTS * Morris Beshay; * Giovanni Carboni; * Ralph A Schmid Division of General Thoracic Surgery University Hospital Beren Switzerland, Bern, Switzerland
	23	(32975) SUB-LOBAR LUNG RESECTIONS OF PERIPHERAL STAGE I NSCLC DOES NOT AFFECT LOCAL RECURRENCE RATE * Tiziano De Giacomo; * Federico Venuta; * Erino A Rendina; Mario Di Stasio; * Marco Anile; * Daniele Diso; * Francioni Federico; * Giorgio F Coloni University of Rome Sapienza Thoracic Surgery, Rome, Italy
	24	(32822) COMPARISON OF POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY IMAGING AND MEDIASTINOSCOPY IN STAGING OF NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER: ANALYSIS OF 815 LYMPH NODES Altan Kir; * Ilker Iskender; Altug Kosar; * Aysun K Misirlioglu; Salih Z Kadioglu; Mine Demir; Ali Atasalihi Sureyyapasa Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery Training and Investigation Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
	25	(32711) PROGNOSTIC MARKER FOR MALIGNANT PLEURAL MESOTHELIOMA * Isabelle Opitz¹; Alexander Soltermann²; Alexandra Schramm¹; Peter Vogt²; Holger Moch²; Rolf Stahel³; * Walter Weder¹ ¹Thoracic Surgery University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland; ²Institute for Surgical Patholgoy University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland; ³Laboratory for Molecular Oncology University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland
	26	(32178) PNEUMONECTOMY FOR BRONCHOGENIC CARCINOMA: ANALYSIS OF FACTORS PREDICTING SHORT AND LONG TERM OUTCOME. * Eelco Veen¹; Maryska Janssen-Heijnen²; Ewan Ritchie¹; Bonne Biesma¹; * Robert Jan Bolhuis¹ ¹Jeroen Bosch Hospital, Den-Bosch, Netherlands; ²Comprehensive Cancer Centre South, Eindhoven, Netherlands
	27	(32986) CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF TUMOUR CELLS IN THE PULMONARY VEINS FROM RESECTED SPECIMENS OF PATIENTS WITH NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER Giuseppe Pirozzi¹; Virginia Tirino¹; Caterina Marzocchella¹; Renato Franco²; * Francesco Scognamiglio¹; * Carmine La Manna¹; * Antonello La Rocca¹; Gerardo Botti²; * Gaetano Rocco¹ ¹Department of Thoracic Surgery and Department of Experimental Oncology National Cancer Institute Pascale Foundation, Naples, Italy; ²Department of Pathology National Cancer Institute Pascale Foundation, Naples, Italy
	28	(32998) LOCALLY ADVANCED NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG CANCER (NSCLC) - DO INTRAPULMONARY SATELLITE NODULES FIT IN THIS CATEGORY? * Clemens Aigner; Bahil Ghanim; Christian Roth; Mir Ali Reza Hoda; * Shahrokh Taghavi; * Gyoergy Lang; * Gabriel Mihai Marta; * Walter Klepetko Vienna University Hospital, Vienna, Austria
	29	(32789) LONG TERM SURVIVAL FOLLOWING COMBINED MODALITY MANAGEMENT OF PATIENTS WITH NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER (NSCLC) AND SYNCHRONOUS SOLITARY BRAIN METASTASIS * Wulf Sienel; Sebastian Dango; Beatrix Cucuruz; Andreas Kirschbaum; * Christian Stremmel; * Bernward Passlick Department of Thoracic Surgery of the Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
	30	(32769) LONG TERM RESULTS OF LUNG CANCER AFTER HEART TRANSPLANTATION: SINGLE CENTER 20-YEAR EXPERIENCE * Massimo Torre; Serena Conforti; Giuseppe Bruschi; Claudio Russo; Stefano Fieschi; Andrea Santi Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Department Niguarda Hospital, Milano, Italy


MONDAY 9 June 2008

07:30 - 08:20 Salone del Podesta		Breakfast Session 1 - Pectus Excavatum "Traditional Techniques versus Nuss Procedure"


MONDAY 9 June 2008

07:30 - 08:20 Sala degli Atti		Breakfast Session 2 - Esophagectomy for Resectable Esophageal Cancer "Minimally Invasive versus Open"


MONDAY 9 June 2008

07:30 - 08:20 Sala del Capitano		Breakfast Session 3 - Sealants after Pulmonary Resection "YES versus NO"


MONDAY 9 June 2008

08:25 - 08:30 Salone del Podesta		OPENING REMARKS


MONDAY 9 June 2008

08:30 - 10:30 Salone del Podesta		Session 1 - Brompton Session (Mixed) Brompton Prize (1000 euro) for Best Abstract by first author ESTS member
	1	(32302) DOES PREVIOUS FUNDOPLICATION ALTER THE SURGICAL APPROACH TO ESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA ? * Alan Casson; Koroush Madani; Sarika Mann; Bruce Reeder; Hyun Lim University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
	2	(32816) SURVIVAL AFTER RESECTION OF SYNCHRONOUS BILATERAL NSCLC * Paul De Leyn¹; Johnny Moons¹; Johan Vansteenkiste²; Eric Verbeken³; * Dirk Van Raemdonck¹; * Philippe Nafteux¹; * Willy Coosemans¹; * Herbert Decaluwé¹; * Georges Decker¹; * Toni Lerut¹ ¹Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Leuven, Belgium; ²Department of Pneumology, University Hospital Leuven, Belgium; ³Department of Radiology, University Hospital Leuven, Belgium
	3	(32804) PROFITABILITY OF OUR LUNG RETRIEVAL PROGRAM FROM NON HEART BEATING DONORS * Elena Fernández; Joaquín Calatayud; * José Ramó, Jarabo; * Florentino Hernando; Olga Rodríguez; Ana María Gómez; Ana Soria; Francisco Del Río Hospital Clinico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain
	4	(32765) DATA FROM A NATIONAL LUNG CANCER REGISTRY IMPROVES OUTCOME AND QUALITY OF SURGERY - DANISH RESULTS. * Erik Jakobsen¹; Torben Palshof²; Kell Østerlind³; Hans Pilegaard⁴ ¹The Danish Lung Cancer Registry Odense University Hospital Department of Thoracic Surgery, Odense, Denmark; ²Aarhus University Hospital Department of Oncology, Aarhus, Denmark; ³Rigshospitalet Department of Oncology, Copenhagen, Denmark; ⁴Aarhus University Hospital Skejby Department of Thoracic Surgery, Aarhus, Denmark
	5	(32803) EFFECT OF BILATERAL MEDIASTINAL LYMPHADENECTOMY ON THE RISK OF THE SUBSEQUENT PULMONARY RESECTION * Jaroslaw Kuzdzal; * Marcin Zielinski; * Lukasz Hauer; Artur Szlubowski Sokolowski Pulmonary Hospital, Zakopane, Poland
	6	(32770) STRUCTURAL LUNG DAMAGE AFTER CHEMOTHERAPY. FACT OR FICTION? * Francesco Leo¹; Giuseppe Pelosi²; Angelica Sonzogni²; Marco Chilosi³; * Francesco Petrella¹; * Domenico Galetta¹; * Lorenzo Spaggiari¹ ¹Thoracic Surgery Department European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy; ²Division of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy; ³Institute of Pathology University of Verona, Verona, Italy
	7	(32832) COMPARISON OF SINGLE OR DOUBLE CHEST TUBES APPLICATIONS AFTER PULMONARY LOBECTOMIES * Erdal Okur; * Volkan Baysungur; * Cagatay Tezel; * Gokcen Sevilgen; * Gokhan Ergene; * Mertol Gokce; * Semih Halezeroglu Sureyyapasa Chest Disease and Thoracic Surgery Teaching Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
	8	(32768) PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES (PLS) PATH MODELLING FOR THE EVALUATION OF PATIENTS SATISFACTION AFTER THORACIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES * Gaetano Rocco¹; Carlo Lauro²; Neri Lauro⁵; Manuela Sarnelli¹; Graziano Olivieri³; Salvatore Gatti³; * Antonello La Rocca¹; Adolfo Renzi¹ ¹Department of Thoracic Surgery and Oncology National Cancer Institute Pascale Foundation, Naples, Italy; ²Department of Mathematics and Statistics Federico II University, Naples, Italy; ³Department of Health Informatics National Cancer Institute Pascale Foundation, Naples, Italy; ⁴IRCSIA Institute fr Research and Certification through Applied Statistics and Informatics, Naple, Italy; ⁵IRCSIA Institute for Research and Certification through Applied Statistics and Informatics, Naples, Italy


MONDAY 9 June 2008

11:00 - 11:30 Salone del Podesta		Session 2 - Interesting Cases (Mixed) Covidien Prize for Best Presentation (Free VATS Masterclass Elancourt) The prize is sponsored by Covidien
	1	(32128) MULTIDISCIPLINARY MANAGEMENT OF A PATIENT WITH LIFE-THREATENING IMPENDING PARADOXICAL EMBOLUS AND ACUTE PULMONARY EMBOLI SECONDARY TO A GIANT FIBROID * Cliff K Choong¹; Yasir Abu-Omar¹; Derek Appleton²; Raj Mathur²; Robin Crawford²; Florian Falter¹ ¹Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, United Kingdom; ²Addenbrookes Hospital NHS Trust, Cambridge, United Kingdom
	2	(32912) ECTOPIC THYROID ADENOMA OF THE TRACHEA * Ioan Cordos; * Cristian Paleru; * Ciprian Bolca National Institute of Pneumology Marius Nasta, Bucharest, Romania
	3	(32709) AN UNUSUAL CASE OF THORACIC CALCIFYING FIBROUS PSEUDOTUMOR. Antonello Mazzeo; Antonio Bobbio; Luca Ampollini; * Paolo Carbognani; * Michele Rusca University of Parma, Parma, Italy
	4	(32773) "TO STENT OR NOT TO STENT?", THAT IS THE QUESTION Ashvini Menon; * Anand Sachithanandan; Rami Dhillon Birmingham Childrens Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom
	5	(32068) DISCONNECTION OF FISTULA BETWEEN A TRACHEA AND AN ARTIFICIAL ESOPHAGUS WITH REPEATED ESOPHAGOPLASTY WITH COLON GRAFT USING. Vladimir D Parshin; Dmitry V Ruchkin; * Dmitry V Bazarov; Margarita A Vyjygina; Kuldash A Abdumuradov; Sergey V Golovinsky National Research Centre of Surgery Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation
	6	(33017) PRIMARY SYNOVIAL SARCOMA OF THE LUNG PRESENTATION OF 2 RARE CASES AND REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE Aysun Olcmen; Mehmet Z Gunluoglu; H.Volkan Kara; Baris Medetoglu; Adalet Demir; Nur Buyukpinarbasili; Seyyit I Dincer Yedikule Teaching Hospital for Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery Department of Thoracic Surgery, istanbul, Turkey


MONDAY 9 June 2008

11:30 - 12:00 Salone del Podesta		Presidential Address: " A View from Above" by Gaetano Rocco, President ESTS Introducer: Laureano Molins (President-elect ESTS)


MONDAY 9 June 2008

12:00 - 13:00 Salone del Podesta		Invited Lecture "TB or not to be, that is the surgical question" by John A. Odell, Professor of Surgery, Mayo Clinic in Florida, Jacksonville, FL Introducer: Gaetano Rocco, President ESTS


MONDAY 9 June 2008

13:00 - 14:00 Salone del Podesta		Lunch Symposium "Update on Management of Emphysema"


MONDAY 9 June 2008

13:00 - 14:00 Sala degli Atti		KCI Satellite Symposium Sponsored by KCI


MONDAY 9 June 2008

14:00 - 15:30 Salone del Podesta		Session 3 - Pulmonary Neoplastic
	1	(32762) DUAL TIME POINT F-18 FDG PET IN DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN PRIMARY AND METASTATIC LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA Hyun Koo Kim; Sungeun Kim; Sang Yeub Lee; Kwang Ho In; Young Ho Choi; Kwang Taek Kim Korea University Medical Center, Seoul, Korea (South)
	2	(32180) THE ACCURACY OF 18F-FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY IN THE EVALUATION OF METASTATIC PULMONARY NODULES Daniel Fortes; Mark Allen; Claude Deschamps; Francis Nichols; * Stephen Cassivi; Dennis Wigle; Shen Robert Mayo Clinic, Rochester, United States
	3	(32953) THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SUVMAX IN PATIENTS WITH STAGE I PULMONARY ADENOCARCINOMA Hyeong Ryul Kim; Sang Cheol Lee; * Sanghoon Jheon; * Sook Whan Sung Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Korea (South)
	4	(32637) MIDTERM RESULTS AND FACTORS FOR SURVIVAL IN TRIMODALITY THERAPY FOR LOCALLY ADVANCED STAGE III LUNG CANCER Volker Steger¹; Thorsten Walles¹; Bora Kosan¹; Stefi Veit¹; Tobias Walker²; Werner Spengler³; Thomas Kyriss¹; * Godehard Friedel¹ ¹Schillerhoehe Hospital Department of Thoracic Surgery, Gerlingen, Germany; ²Tuebingen University Department of Cardiac Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Tuebingen, Germany; ³Schillerhoehe Hospital Department of Oncology, Gerlingen, Germany
	5	(32737) BRONCHOPLASTIC PROCEDURES VERSUS PNEUMONECTOMY AFTER INDUCTION CHEMORADIOTHERAPY FOR STAGE IIIA/IIIB NSCLC: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF MORBIDITY, MORTALITY, SURVIVAL AND RECURRENCES * Georgios Stamatis¹; Thomas Krbek¹; Stefan Welter¹; Wilfried Eberhardt²; Christoph Poettgen² ¹Thoracic Surgery and Endoscopy Ruhrlandklinik, 45239 Essen, Germany; ²Tumorklinik University of Essen Duisburg, 45144 Essen, Germany
	6	(32796) ADJUVANT ACTIVE VACCINATION WITH IGN101 AFTER RADICAL LUNG CANCER RESECTION IN STAGE IB-IIIA - A PROSPECTIVE RANDOMIZED, DOUBLE-BLIND, MULTICENTER STUDY * Erich Stoelben¹; Hans Loibner⁵; * Walter Weder²; * Claudia Schmoll³; * Milorad Bijelovic⁴; * Joachim Hasse³ ¹Lung Clinic of the Metropolitan Hospital, Cologne, Germany; ²Thoracic Surgery Department University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland; ³Thoracic Surgery Department University Hospital, Freiburg, Germany; ⁴Institut for Respiratory Medicine, Sremska Kamenica, Serbia and Montenegro; ⁵Altropus GmbH, Arlesheim, Switzerland


MONDAY 9 June 2008

14:00 - 15:30 Sala degli Atti		Session 4 - Young Investigator Award (Mixed) Young Investigator Award (1000 euro) for Best Research Paper by first author < 35 years
	1	(32830) REDUCED RECURRENCE OF MALIGNANT PLEURAL MESOTHELIOMA AFTER IMMUNO-CHEMOTHERAPY * Luca Ampollini¹; Alex Soltermann²; Emanuela Felley-Bosco³; * Didier Lardinois¹; Stephan Arni¹; Roberto Speck⁴; * Walter Weder¹; * Isabelle Opitz¹ ¹Thoracic Surgery University Hospital of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; ²Department of Pathology, Zurich, Switzerland; ³Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Zurich, Switzerland; ⁴Department of Internal Medicine, Zurich, Switzerland
	2	(32873) THERAPEUTIC SURGERY FOR NON-EPITHELIAL MALIGNANT PLEURAL MESOTHELIOMA (MPM) ? IS IT REALLY WORTHWHILE ? * Delphine Trousse; * Apostolos Nakas; * Giuseppe Cardillo; * Antonio Martin Ucar; Salli Muller; * David A Waller Department of Thoracic Surgery Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, United Kingdom
	3	(32134) STAGING VALUE OF EXTENDED CERVICAL MEDIASTINOSCOPY FOR BRONCHOGENIC CARCINOMA OF THE LEFT LUNG * Sergi Call; * Ramon Rami-Porta; * Mireia Serra-Mitjans; * Roser Saumench; * Carlos Bidegain; Manuela Iglesias; Guadalupe Gonzalez-Pont; * Jose Beda-Sanchis Hospital Mutua de Terrassa, Terrassa, Spain
	4	(32112) IMPACT OF CHEST TUBE MILKING ON POSTOPERATIVE MORBIDITY AFTER THORACOTOMY : RESULTS OF A PROSPECTIVE, RANDOMIZED TRIAL * Sebastian Dango; * Wulf Sienel; * Bernward Passlick; * Christian Stremmel Departement of Thoracic Surgery at the University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
	5	(32146) STEM CELLS AND BRONCHIAL STUMP HEALING * David Gomez de Antonio; Mercedes Zurita; Isabel Salas; Pablo Gamez; Mar Cordoba; * Javier Moradiellos; * Andres Varela Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro, Madrid, Spain
	6	(33023) INCIDENCE, MANAGEMENT AND CLINICAL OUTCOMES OF PATIENTS WITH AIRWAY COMPLICATIONS FOLLOWING LUNG TRANSPLANTATION. * Paula Moreno; * Antonio Alvarez; Francisco Javier Algar; Jose Ramon Cano; Dionisio Espinosa; Francisco Cerezo; Carlos Baamonde; Angel Salvatierra Department of Thoracic Surgery Lung Transplantation Unit University Hospital Reina Sofia, Cordoba, Spain
	7	(32958) CHANGES OF CIRCULATING ENDOTHELIAL PROGENITOR CELLS (EPCS) IN SCLC AND NSCLC PATIENTS * Kai Nowak¹; Neysan Rafat²; Sebastian Belle³; Christina Hanusch²; Peter Hohenberger¹; Grietje Beck² ¹Department of Surgery Mediacal Faculty Mannheim University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany; ²Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care Mediacal Faculty Mannheim University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany; ³Thoracic Oncology Unit Mediacal Faculty Mannheim University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
	8	(32849) PROGNOSTIC FACTORS AND ANALYSIS OF PROTEIN S100A4 IN RESECTED PULMONARY METASTASES FROM RENAL CELL CARCINOMA * Alessandro Bandiera¹; * Giulio Melloni¹; Massimo Freschi²; Michele Giovanardi¹; Anna Borri³; Chiara Miggiano³; * Angelo Carretta¹; * Paola Ciriaco¹; Claudio Doglioni²; * Piero Zannini¹ ¹Department of Thoracic Surgery Scientific Institute H San Raffaele, Milan, Italy; ²Department of Pathology Scientific Institute H San Raffaele, Milan, Italy; ³Department of Medicine Scientific Institute H San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
	9	(32468) QUALITY OF LIFE IN THE ELDERLY AFTER MAJOR LUNG RESECTION FOR LUNG CANCER * Michele Salati; * Alessandro Brunelli; Majed Refai; Francesco Xiume'; * Laura Socci; Luca Di Nunzio; Armando Sabbatini Umberto I Regional Hospital, Ancona, Italy


MONDAY 9 June 2008

16:00 - 17:30 Salone del Podesta		Session 5 - Pulmonary Non-Neoplastic
	1	(32684) SHORT-TERM PERIOPERATIVE TREATMENT WITH AMBROXOL REDUCES PULMONARY COMPLICATIONS AND HOSPITAL COSTS AFTER PULMONARY LOBECTOMY. A RANDOMIZED TRIAL. Majed Refai; * Alessandro Brunelli; Francesco Xiume'; * Michele Salati; Valeria Sciarra; Armando Sabbatini Umberto I Regional Hospital, Ancona, Italy
	2	(32984) A PROSPECTIVE STUDY OF ANALGESIC QUALITY AFTER A THORACOTOMY: PARAVERTEBRAL BLOCK WITH ROPIVACAINE BEFORE AND AFTER RIB SPREADING. * Juan J Fibla; * Laureano Molins; * Jose M Mier; Ana Sierra; Gonzalo Vidal Thoracic Surgery Sagrat Cor University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain
	3	(32964) REDUCING AIRLEAKS IN LUNG VOLUME REDUCTION SURGERY: IS THERE A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TWO DIFFERENT BUTTRESSES? H Abunasra; I Oey; L Simpson; S Solly; * A Martin-Ucar; * DA Waller Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, United Kingdom
	4	(32913) USEFULNESS OF HRCT-SCORE AS A GUIDE IN SELECTION OF THE OPTIMAL SITE FOR LUNG BIOPSY IN DIFFUSE PARENCHYMAL LUNG DISEASES Artur Szlubowski¹; Krzysztof Sladek²; Jerzy Soja²; Piotr Grzanka²; Boleslaw Papla³; * Dariusz Wasowski²; * Jaroslaw Kuzdzal¹ ¹Sokolowski Pulmonary Hospital, Zakopane, Poland; ²Dept of Medicine Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland; ³Dept of Pathology Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
	5	(32142) EXERCISE CAPACITY ASSESSMENT IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING LUNG RESECTION. Antonio Bobbio; Alfredo Chetta; * Eveline Internullo; * Luca Ampollini; Nicola Fabiano; Antonello Mazzeo; Marina Aiello; Stefano Bettati; * Paolo Carbognani; * Michele Rusca University of Parma, Parma, Italy
	6	(32917) IMPUTATION TECHNIQUES AND MODELING OF OUTCOMES FOR MAJOR LUNG RESECTION * Mark K Ferguson; Juned Siddique; Theodore Karrison The University of Chicago, Chicago, United States


MONDAY 9 June 2008

16:00 - 17:30 Sala degli Atti		Session 6 - Innovative Techniques - Experimental
	1	(33050) THE LAPAROSCOPIC MOTOR POINT DIAPHRAGM PACING STIMULATION (DPS) SYSTEM: PROVIDING AND MAINTAINING NATURAL DIAPHRAGM VENTILATION Ramond Onders; Anthony Ignagni University Hospital Case Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Ohio, United States
	2	(32421) C-JUN N TERMINAL KINASE INHIBITION DOES NOT DECREASE LUNG INJURY AFTER ISCHEMIA-REPERFUSION INJURY IN RODENTS Cai Cheng; * Thorsten Krueger; Francois Mithieux; Igor Letovanec; * Hans-Beat Ris; John-David Aubert Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland
	3	(33026) THE ROLE OF CD133 IN THE IDENTIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF TUMOUR INITIATING CELLS IN LUNG CANCER Giuseppe Pirozzi²; Virginia Tirino²; Rosa Camerlingo²; Renato Franco¹; Gerardo Botti¹; * Francesco Scognamiglio³; * Carmine La Manna³; * Antonello La Rocca³; * Gaetano Rocco³ ¹Department of Pathology National Cancer Institute Pascale Foundation, Naples, Italy; ²Department of Experimental Oncology National Cancer Institute Pascale Foundation, Naples, Italy; ³Department of Thoracic Surgery and Oncology National Cancer Institute Pascale Foundation, Naples, Italy
	4	(32906) COMPARATIVE EFFECT OF HYPERTHERMIA VS HYPERTHERMIA-CISPLATINUM IN THE DEATH INDUCTION OF THE PLEURAL MESOTHELIAL CELL. José-Maria Matilla¹; * Félix Heras¹; Sara Cabanyes¹; Begoña Gregorio¹; Nieves Fernández-García²; Mariano Sánchez-Crespo²; Angel Cilleruelo¹; * Guillermo Ramos¹; * Mariano García-Yuste¹ ¹Experimental Thoracic Surgery Unit University of Valladolid School of Medicine, Valladolid, Spain; ²Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics Spanish Research Council and University of Valladolid School of Medicine, Valladolid, Spain
	5	(32723) PATIENT-DERIVED XENOGRAFTS OF NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER: A PRECLINICAL MODEL TO EVALUATE ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY? * Johannes Merk¹; J Rolff²; R Soong³; S Lee³; M Becker²; * G Leschber¹; I Fichtner² ¹Department of Thoracic Surgery ELK Berlin Chest Hospital, Berlin, Germany; ²Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany; ³National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
	6	(32745) MINIMALLY INVASIVE RADICAL LYMPHADENECTOMY FOR EARLY STAGE LUNG CARCINOMA * Biruta Witte¹; Stefan Groß¹; * Michael Wolf¹; Wolfgang Neumeister²; * Martin Huertgen¹ ¹Department of Thoracic Surgery Katholisches Klinikum Koblenz, Koblenz, Germany; ²Department of Pneumology Katholisches Klinikum Koblenz, Koblenz, Germany
	7	(32232) STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY FOR PULMONARY MALIGNANCIES: A SINGLE INSTITUTION EXPERIENCE Santosh N Krishnan; Kenneth Bastin; Cindy Thomasen; Kristen Willis Aurora St Lukes Medical Center, Milwaukee, United States
	8	(33032) ROBOTIC-ASSISTED THYMECTOMY ? REPORT OF 134 PATIENTS * Jens C Rückert¹; Marc Swierzy¹; Mahmoud Ismail¹; Patrik Rogalla²; Andreas Meisel³; Ralph I Rückert⁴ ¹Charite Berlin Department of Surgery, Berlin, Germany; ²Charite Campus Mitte Department of Radiology, Berlin, Germany; ³Charite Campus Mitte Department of Neurology, Berlin, Germany; ⁴Franziskus Krankenhaus Department of Surgery, Berlin, Germany
	9	(32670) NAVIGATION-ASSISTED MEDIASTINOSCOPY WITH 3D-VIRTUAL MOVIE BASED ON PET-CT * Hideki Itano¹; Koumei Takauchi²; Yutaka Hirokawa² ¹Kure Kyosai Hospital, Kure, Hiroshima, Japan; ²Hiroshima Heiwa Clinic, Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan


MONDAY 9 June 2008

17:30 - 19:00 Salone del Podesta		Joint ERS-ESTS Task Force session "Fitness for Radical Therapy" the task force is sponsored by ERS


MONDAY 9 June 2008

17:30 - 19:00 Sala degli Atti		Symposium Women in Thoracic Surgery


MONDAY 9 June 2008

08:30 - 17:30 Rooms 36 - 38		Monday Posters Greek Pioneer Prize (500 euro) for best poster
	1	(33022) MODIFIED NUSS REPAIR OF PECTUS EXCAVATUM IN ADULTS - SINGLE INSTITUTION EXPERIENCE * Wojciech Zurek¹; Piotr Chwirot¹; Adam Sternau¹ ¹Department of Thoracic Surgery Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland; ²Thoracic Surgery Department Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland
	2	(32668) QUALITY OF LIFE AFTER OESOPHAGECTOMY FOR CARCINOMA. DOES IT IMPACT THE ELDERLY MORE? * Antonio E Martin-Ucar; Sarah E Deacon; Lynda Beggs; * Ed A Black; * John P Duffy; * David Beggs Department of Thoracic Surgery Nottingham University Hospitals, Nottingham, United Kingdom
	3	(32714) TRANSBRONCHIAL NEEDLE ASPIRATION UNDER DIRECT ENDOBRONCHIAL ULTRASOUND GUIDANCE OF PET POSITIVE ISOLATED MEDIASTINAL ADENOPATHY IN PATIENTS WITH PREVIOUS MALIGNANCY * Mario Nosotti¹; * Lorenzo Rosso¹; Davide Tosi¹; Alessandro Palleschi¹; Paolo Mendogni¹; Alessia Stanzi¹; Stefania Rossi² ¹Thoracic Surgical Unit Fondazione Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico Mangiagalli e Regina Elena, Milan, Italy; ²Division of Pathology Department of Medicine Surgery and Dentistry University of Milan AO San Paolo, Milan, Italy
	4	(33048) TIMING OF ESOPHAGECTOMY AFTER COMPLETION OF NEOADJUVANT THERAPY AFFECTS ANASTOMOTIC LEAK RATES Kalpaj Parekh¹; Tricia Fairchild¹; Timothy Van Natta²; William Lynch¹; * Mark Iannettoni¹ ¹University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, United States; ²Harbor UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, United States
	5	(32797) IS ARDS/ALI COMMON AFTER OESOPHAGECTOMY IN A SPECIALIST THORACIC UNIT? AN AUDIT OF RESPIRATORY COMPLICATIONS Samya Rao; * Antonio E Martin-Ucar; Lynda Beggs; * David Beggs; * Ed A Black; * John P Duffy Department of Thoracic Surgery Nottingham University Hospitals, Nottingham, United Kingdom
	6	(32695) CRITICAL APPRAISAL OF LYMPH NODE MAPPING FOR STAGING ESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA * A Casson; K Madani; S Mann; H Lim; B Reeder University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
	7	(32884) SENSIBILITY AND SPECIFICITY OF FDG-PET/CT FOR PREOPERATIVE STAGING OF ESOPHAGEAL CANCER Alberto Ruffato¹; * Sandro Mattioli¹; Vladimiro Pilotti¹; Stefano Fanti²; Paolo Castellucci²; Arber Golemi²; Riccardo Galassi³; Andrea Moretti³ ¹Division of Esophageal and Pulmonary Surgery Villa Maria Cecilia and San Pier Damiano Hospitals University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy; ²Department of Nuclear Medicine Sant Orsola Malpighi Hospital University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy; ³Department of Nuclear Medicine Morgagni Pierantoni Hospital, Forlì, Italy
	8	(33010) SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF INTRA-THORACIC GOITERS. * Jose R Matilla; Joao R de Almeida; * Teresa M Godinho Pulido Valente Hospital, Lisbon, Portugal
	9	(32891) THE USE OF TRANSCERVICAL APPROACH WITH ELEVATION OF THE STERNAL MANUBRIUM FOR SURGERY OF MEDIASTINAL TUMOURS * Marcin Zielinski; Juliusz Pankowski; * Lukasz Hauer; * Jaroslaw Kuzdzal; Tomasz Nabialek; Artur Szlubowski Pulmonary Hospital, Zakopane, Poland
	10	(32960) A MOUSE MODEL OF ORTHOTOPIC, UNILATERAL LUNG TRANSPLANTATION Wolfgang Jungraithmayr; Stephan Korom; Sven Hillinger; * Walter Weder University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
	11	(32759) MEDIASTINAL DISONTOGENETIC CYSTS: ROLE OF VATS * Maurizio Vaccarili; * William Di Francescantonio; * Sergio Di Tommaso; * Divisi Duilio; * Roberto Crisci University of L Aquila, Teramo, Italy
	12	(32859) PARADOXICAL EFFECT OF COSEAL® IN THE PREVENTION OF POST-SURGICAL LUNG ADHESIONS * Francisco Javier Moradiellos; * David Gómez de Antonio; José Luis Campo-Cañaveral; Pablo Gámez; Mar Córdoba; Andrés Varela Thoracic Surgery Department Puerta de Hierro University Hospital, Madrid, Spain
	13	(32799) PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF A LUNG RECRUITING STRATEGY APPLIED DURING ONE LUNG VENTILATION Michele Cacciapaglia¹; * Francesco Sollitto²; Gilda Cinnella¹; Cristian Mirabile¹; Domenico Loizzi²; Antonio Caso¹; Nicoletta P Ardò²; Francesco Pagano¹; Giuseppe Mincolelli¹; Michele Dambrosio¹ ¹Universita degli Studi di Foggia Dipartimento di Scienze Chirurgiche Sezione di Anestesiologia e Rianimazione, Foggia, Italy; ²Universita degli Studi di Foggia Dipartimento di Scienze Chirurgiche Sezione di Chirurgia Toracica, Foggia, Italy
	14	(32863) CANCER STEM CELL STRATEGY TO REFINE PROGNOSIS IN EARLY HUMAN NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER * Paolo Macri'¹; Natalia Malara²; Salvatore Merola¹; Domenico Foca'²; * Francesco Givigliano¹; Marina Lugara'¹; Giuseppe Viglietto²; Rocco Savino² ¹Department of Thoracic Surgery University Magna Graecia, Catanzaro, Italy; ²Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine University Magna Graecia, Catanzaro, Italy
	15	(32943) IN-VIVO ASSESSMENT OF ANGIOGENESIS IN HUMAN MESOTHELIOMA XENOGRAFTS * Thorsten Krueger¹; Elodie Debefve²; Cai Cheng¹; Steven Schaefer¹; Jean-Pierre Ballini²; Hubert van den Bergh²; * Hans-Beat Ris¹ ¹Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland; ²Swiss Federal Institute for Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
	16	(32952) SURGICAL STAPLERS VERSUS BIPOLAR FUSION TO COMPLETE THE FISSURE DURING LUNG MAJOR RESECTION. * Olivier Tiffet¹; * François Tronc⁴; * Laurent Brouchet⁵; * Marc Filaire⁶; * Francois Bertin³; David Kaczmarek¹; Fabrice Dipalma¹; Odile Nuiry¹; * Pierre Yves Brichon² ¹CHU Saint Etienne, Saint Etienne, France; ²CHU Grenoble, Grenoble, France; ³CHU Limoges, Limoges, France; ⁴CHU Lyon, Lyon, France; ⁵CHU Toulouse, Toulouse, France; ⁶CHU Clermont Ferrand, Clermont Ferrand, France
	17	(32778) INCISIONAL SYMPATHECTOMY (IS) FOR POST THORACOTOMY PAIN; THE CONCEPT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; INITIAL RESULTS * John Wellinger Dept of Thoracic Surgery CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland
	18	(33004) AUTOFLUORESCENCE BRONCHOSCOPY IN PATIENTS CANDIDATES TO AND IN FOLLOW-UP AFTER RESECTION FOR LUNG CANCER * Francesco Sollitto¹; * Angela De Palma²; Rosatea Quercia²; Elvira Spada²; Giuseppe Garofalo²; Nicoletta P Ardò²; Domenico Loizzi¹ ¹Sezione di Chirurgia Toracica Dipartimento di Scienze Chirurgiche Universita degli Studi di Foggia, Foggia, Italy; ²Sezione di Chirurgia Toracica Dipartimento per le Applicazioni in Chirurgia delle Tecnologie Innovative Universita degli Studi di Bari, Bari, Italy
	19	(33034) COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY VOLUME RENDERING EVALUATION OF PARENCHYMAL HYPERINFLATION BEFORE AND AFTER BRONCHOSCOPIC LUNG VOLUME REDUCTION * Antonio D'Andrilli¹; Laura Vismara³; Simona Annibali³; * Anna M Ciccone¹; Claudio Andreetti¹; Mohsen Ibrahim¹; Federico Venuta²; Tiziano De Giacomo²; Erino A Rendina¹ ¹Dept Thoracic Surgery University LaSapienza SantAndrea Hospital, Rome, Italy; ²Dept Thoracic Surgery University LaSapienza Policlinico Umberto I, Rome, Italy; ³Dept Radiology University LaSapienza SantAndrea Hospital, Rome, Italy
	20	(32080) COMPARATIVE STUDY OF NEW DRAINAGE DEVICE (DRAINAGE BAG) AND CHEST BOTTLE FOR PLEURAL CAVITY DRAINAGE Hamid R Kadkhodaie Iran University of Medical Sciences, Teheran, Iran
	21	(32120) POST-DISCHARGE WOUND SURVEILLANCE IN GENERAL THORACIC SURGERY Alan D Sihoe; Lik-Cheung Cheng Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery of the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
	22	(32184) RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION (RFA) IN THE TREATMENT OF PULMONARY METASTASES Joris Joosten; Frits Van den Wildenberg; Andre Molenaar; Mariel Keemers-Van Gels; Wout Barendregt Canisius Wilhelmina Ziekenhuis, Nijmegen, Netherlands
	23	(32667) SINGLE ACCESS TECHNIQUE: AN EFFICACIOUS PAINLESS WAY OF CHEMICAL PLEURODESIS BY VATS. * Stefano Margaritora; Maria Letizia Vita; Elisa Meacci; Venanzio Porziella; Maria Teresa Congedo; Anna Parisi; Mariella Filotico; Pierluigi Granone Division of Thoracic Surgery Catholic University of Rome, Rome, Italy
	24	(33013) VO2 MAX AND CARDIOVASCULAR RISK EVALUATION IN PATIENTS SUBMITTED TO THORACIC SURGERY * Francesco Sollitto¹; Domenico Loizzi¹; Nicoletta P Ardò²; Michele Angiolillo¹; Marco Punzo¹; Elvira Spada²; * Angela De Palma² ¹Sezione di Chirurgia Toracica Dipartimento di Scienze Chirurgiche Universita degli Studi di Foggia, Foggia, Italy; ²Sezione di Chirurgia Toracica Dipartimento per le Applicazioni in Chirurgia delle Tecnologie Innovative Universita degli Studi di Bari, Bari, Italy
	25	(32777) RESECTION OF CHEST WALL TUMORS AND RECONSTRUCTION WITH AN ORIGINAL MESH: SEVEN-YEAR EXPERIENCE * Eustatiu Memu¹; Ovidiu Burlacu¹; * Calin Tunea¹; Voicu Voiculescu¹; Gabriel Cozma¹; * Iris Miron¹; Lavinia Girleanu¹; * Csaba-Antal Kerti²; * Alexandru Nicodin¹ ¹Clinical Municipal Hospital, Timisoara, Romania; ²Clinical Hospital of Infectious Diseases and Pneumology, Timisoara, Romania
	26	(32751) VIDEOTHORACOSCOPIC ULTRASOUND LUNG RESECTION - NEW SURGICAL TECHNIQUE FOR PERIPHERAL OBJECTS ABLATION Andrey Pismennyy¹; Eugeny Korimasov² ¹Regional Clinical Hospital, Samara, Russian Federation; ²Samara State Medical University, Samara, Russian Federation
	27	(32081) THE ROLE OF THORACOSCOPY IN THE MANAGEMENT OF HYDATID CYST OF LUNG - PRESENT AN EXPERIENCE Hamid R Kadkhodaie Iran University of Medical Sciences, Teheran, Iran
	28	(32983) EFFECTIVENESS OF SYMPATHETIC BLOCK BY CLIPPING IN THE TREATMENT OF HYPERHIDROSIS AND UNCONTROLLABLE FACIAL BLUSHING * Juan J Fibla; * Laureano Molins; * Jose M Mier; Gonzalo Vidal Thoracic Surgery Sagrat Cor University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain
	29	(32727) PHOTODYNAMIC DIAGNOSIS IN MANAGEMENT OF METASTATIC LUNG CANCER * Hossam W Eid²; Mirza A Al-sayegh¹; * Najib M Alkhaja² ¹Department of respiratory medicine Dubai Health Authority, Dubai, United Arab Emirates; ²Departments of Cardiothoracic surgery Dubai Health Authority, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
	30	(32860) UNIPORTAL VATS: SINGLE SURGEON'S EXPERIENCE WITH THE FIRST 23 CASES * Cliff K Choong; Peter Bhinda; Yasir Abu-Omar Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and The University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom


TUESDAY 10 June 2008

07:30 - 08:20 Salone del Podesta		Breakfast Session 1 - Bronchial Stump after Pneumonectomy "Routine versus Selective Cover"


TUESDAY 10 June 2008

07:30 - 08:20 Sala degli Atti		Breakfast Session 2 - Myasthenia Gravis "Maximal Thymectomy versus Thoracoscopic Thymectomy"

TUESDAY 10 June 2008

08:30 - 13:00 Salone del Podesta		Thoracic Techno Meeting "The Pleural Space"


TUESDAY 10 June 2008

13:00 - 14:00 Sala del Podesta		Covidien Satellite Symposium Sponsored by Covidien


TUESDAY 10 June 2008

14:00 - 15:30 Salone del Podesta		Session 7 - Airway & Transplantation
	1	(33007) WHENCE THE LUNGS? A REVIEW OF CURRENT LUNG DONOR PROFILE AND ACCEPTANCE RATE Caroline Meers¹; * Dirk Van Raemdonck¹; Geert Verleden²; Lieven Dupont²; Willy Coosemans¹; * Herbert Decaluwe¹; * Paul De Leyn¹; * Philippe Nafteux¹; Georges Decker¹; * Toni Lerut¹ ¹Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Leuven, Belgium; ²Department of Pneumology, University Hospital Leuven, Belgium
	2	(33014) INSTITUTIONAL EXPERIENCE WITH PULMONARY RETRANSPLANTATION * Dirk Van Raemdonck¹; Geert Verleden²; Lieven Dupont²; * Willy Coosemans¹; * Herbert Decaluwe¹; * Georges Decker¹; * Paul De Leyn¹; * Philippe Nafteux¹; * Gabi Walther¹; * Toni Lerut¹ ¹Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Leuven, Belgium; ²Department of Pneumology, University Hospital Leuven, Belgium
	3	(33002) AIRWAY COMPLICATIONS AFTER LUNG TRANSPLANTATION: RISK FACTORS, PREVENTION AND OUTCOME * Walter Weder; * Ilhan Inci; Stephan Korom; * Peter Kestenholz; * Didier Schneiter; * Sven Hillinger; Didier Lardinois University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland
	4	(32086) A REVIEW OF THE LUNG TRANSPLANT PROGRAMME IN IRELAND 2005-2007. * Waldemar R Bartosik; Jim J Egan; Alan Soo; Lars Nolke; James F Mc Carthy; Alfred E Wood Irish National Heart and Lung Transplant Programme Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
	5	(32870) MANAGEMENT OF RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY FOLLOWING THORACIC SURGERY: OUTCOME IN PATIENTS WITH INVASIVE AND NON-INVASIVE VENTILATIONS Jean Y Perentes¹; Revelly Jean-Pierre²; * Ris Hans-Beat¹ ¹Division of thoracic surgery University Hospital of Lausanne CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland; ²Division of adult intensive care medicine, Lausanne, Switzerland
	6	(32755) 60 TRACHEAL RESECTIONS; SINGLE CENTER EXPERIENCE Ioan Cordos; * Ciprian N Bolca; * Cristian Paleru; * Radu D Posea National Institute of Pneumology Marius Nasta, Bucharest, Romania


TUESDAY 10 June 2008
14:00 - 15:30 Sala degli Atti		Session 8 - Pulmonary Neoplastic
	1	(32879) DO BONE MARROW ISOLATED TUMOR CELLS INFLUENCE LONG TERM SURVIVAL OF NSCLC? Alberto Ruffato¹; * Sandro Mattioli¹; * Niccolò Daddi²; * Franco D'Ovidio³; Stefano Pileri⁴; Vladimiro Pilotti¹ ¹Division of Esophageal and Pulmonary Surgery Villa Maria Cecilia and San Pier Damiano Hospitals University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy; ²Division of Thoracic Surgery Monteluce Hospital University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy; ³Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery Columbia University, New York, United States; ⁴Institute of Hematology and Medical Oncology Seragnoli Sant Orsola Malpighi Hospital University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
	2	(32316) PROGNOSTIC SIGNIFICANCE OF INTRAOPERATIVE PLEURAL LAVAGE CYTOLOGY FOR LUNG CANCER PATIENTS WITHOUT MALIGNANT PLEURITIS: LONG-TERM FOLLOW-UP RESULTS Masahiko Higashiyama; Kazuyuki Oda; Jiro Okami; Jun Maeda; Ken Kodama; Akemi Takenaka; Tomio Nakayama; Gen-ichiro Yoneda Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases, Osaka, Japan
	3	(32977) EXPRESSION LEVELS OF ANTIOXIDANT AND RECEPTOR GENES IN PATIENTS WITH EARLY STAGE NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER. Giuseppe De Palma³; Paola Mozzoni²; * Eveline Internullo¹; Olga Acampa²; Massimo Corradi⁴; Antonio Mutti⁴; * Paolo Carbognani¹; * Michele Rusca¹ ¹Thoracic Surgery Unit University of Parma, Parma, Italy; ²ISPESL Research Center at the University of Parma, Parma, Italy; ³Department of Experimental and Applied Medicine Laboratory of Industrial Toxicology University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy; ⁴Department of Clinical Medicine Nephrology and Health Sciences Laboratory of Industrial Toxicology University of Parma, Parma, Italy
	4	(32866) 68GA-DOTA-NOC PET FOR THE EVALUATION OF PULMONARY NEUROENDOCRINE TUMORS: PRELIMINARY EXPERIENCE Valentina Ambrosini¹; Paolo Castellucci¹; Vincenzo Allegri¹; Alessandra Musto¹; Giancarlo Montini¹; Cristina Nanni¹; Roberto Franchi¹; Stefano Fanti¹; * Sandro Mattioli² ¹Department of Nuclear Medicine San Orsola Malpighi Hospital University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy; ²Division of Esophageal and Pulmonary Surgery Villa Maria Cecilia and San Pier Damiano Hospitals University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
	5	(32808) COMPLETION PNEUMONECTOMY FOR NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER: DOES PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT AFFECTS POSTOPERATIVE OUTCOME? * Domenico Galetta; Piergiorgio Solli; * Francesco Leo; Giulia Veronesi; Alessandro Borri; Roberto Gasparri; Francesco Petrella; Paolo Scanagatta; * Lorenzo Spaggiari Division of Thoracic Surgery European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy
	6	(32894) POST OPERATIVE AND LONG TERM RESULTS OF PULMONARY RESECTION FOR LUNG CANCER AFTER SOLID ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION Virginie Pichot-Delahaye¹; Benoit Guibert²; Eric De La Roche³; Pascale Boissonnat⁴; Man Nguyen Van¹; Jacques Beaulieux³; * Jean Paul Gamondes¹; Francois Tronc¹ ¹Department of Thoracic Surgery Hopital Louis Pradel, Lyon, France; ²Department of general and Thoracic Surgery Centre Hospitalier Lyon Sud, Lyon, France; ³Department of General and Thoracic Surgery Hopital de La Croix Rousse, Lyon, France; ⁴Department of Adult Cardiac Transplantation Hopital Louis Pradel, Lyon, France
	7	(32844) SURGICAL MULTIMODALITY TREATMENT FOR STAGE IIIA-N2 NSCLC * Herbert Decaluwé¹; * Paul De Leyn¹; Johan Vansteenkiste²; Christophe Dooms²; Yolande Lievens³; * Dirk Van Raemdonck¹; * Philippe Nafteux¹; * Willy Coosemans¹; * Georges Decker¹; * Toni Lerut¹ ¹Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Leuven, Belgium; ²Department of Pneumology, University Hospital Leuven, Belgium; ³Department of Radiotherapy, University Hospital Leuven, Belgium
	8	(33043) TECHNIQUE AND ROLE OF RADICAL VATS SEGMENTECTOMY FOR SMALL SIZE LUNG CANCER Makoto Oda; Isao Matsumoto; Tsuyoshi Yachi; Yoshitaka Yamamoto; Takehisa Imagawa; Kenichiro Saito; Go Watanabe Kanazawa University Hospital, Kanazawa, Japan
	9	(32669) IS PREOPERATIVE AND POSTOPERATIVE RESPIRATORY THERAPY WITH INTERMEDIATE POSITIVE PRESSURE BREATHING NECESSARY IN PATIENTS WITH MAJOR PULMONARY RESECTIONS? * Corinna Ludwig; Renato Martins; Volker Mayer; * Erich Steolben Kliniken der Stadt Koeln gGmbH, Cologne, Germany


TUESDAY 10 June 2008

15:30 - 16:00 Sala del Podesta		Invited Extraordinary Presidential Lecture "Ferrari: the legend lives on" by Mr Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, Chairman and CEO - Ferrari s.p.a and Scuderia Ferrari


TUESDAY 10 June 2008

16:00 - 17:30 Salone del Podesta		Session 9 - Oesophagus & Mediastinum
	1	(32924) LAPAROSCOPIC ISCHAEMIC CONDITIONING OF THE STOMACH REDUCES GASTRIC CONDUIT MORBIDITY FOLLOWING TOTAL MINIMALLY INVASIVE OESOPHAGECTOMY. Darmarajah Veeramootoo; Rajeev Parmeswaran; Saj Wajed; * Richard G Berrisford Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, Exeter, United Kingdom
	2	(32819) EPIPHRENIC DIVERTICULUM: A CLINICAL AND PATHOLOGIC STUDY * Thomas Rice; Martha M Yearsley; Scott I Reznik; Steven S Shay; David P Mason; Sudish C Murthy; John R Goldblum Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, United States
	3	(32856) TREATMENT OF LOCALLY ADVANCED (CT3-4N1M0) CANCER OF THE ESOPHAGUS AND GASTROESOPHAGEAL JUNCTION IN YOUNGER (< 55 YEARS) PATIENTS. * Philippe Nafteux; Johnny Moons; * Willy Coosemans; * Herbert Decaluwé; * Georges Decker; * Paul De Leyn; * Dirk Van Raemdonck; * Toni Lerut Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Leuven, Belgium
	4	(32904) EBUS-TBNA IN NSCLC STAGING Artur Szlubowski; * Jaroslaw Kuzdzal; * Jolanta Hauer; * Lukasz Hauer; Juliusz Pankowski; Anna Obrochta; * Marcin Zielinski Sokolowski Pulmonary Hospital, Zakopane, Poland
	5	(32875) THE ROLE OF F-FDG PET-TC IN THE PREOPERATIVE ASSESSMENT OF ANTERIOR MEDIASTINAL MASSES * Luca Luzzi¹; Andrea Campione¹; Alberto Gorla¹; Giuseppe Vassallo¹; Andrea Bianchi²; Alberto Biggi²; * Alberto Terzi¹ ¹Thoracic Surgery Unit S Croce e Carle Hospital, Cuneo, Italy; ²Nuclear Medicine Service S Croce e Carle Hospital, Cuneo, Italy
	6	(32663) THYMECTOMY IN MYASTHENIA GRAVIS VIA VIDEO-ASSISTED INFRA-MAMMARY COSMETIC INCISION: LONG-TERM RESULTS IN 180 PATIENTS. Elisa Meacci¹; * Stefano Margaritora¹; Venanzio Porziella¹; Maria Letizia Vita¹; Adele Tessitore¹; Stefano Cafarotti¹; Alessio Piraino¹; Giacomo Cusumano¹; Amelia Evoli²; Pierluigi Granone¹ ¹Division of Thoracic Surgery Catholic University of Rome, Rome, Italy; ²Division of Neurology Catholic University of Rome, Rome