Thorax: 66 (4)

Airwaves

Highlights from this issue (21 March, 2011) Free
Andrew Bush, Ian Pavord

Editorials

Quantification of regional lymph node involvement in lung cancer (21 March, 2011)
Ramón Rami-Porta
Individualised treatment in non-small cell lung cancer: precise tissue diagnosis for all? (23 February, 2011)
Richard Booton, Fiona Blackhall, Keith Kerr
Imaging in lung cancer: recent advances in PET-CT and screening (21 March, 2011)
David R Baldwin
Evaluation of screening-detected lung nodules: minimising the risk of unnecessary biopsy and surgery (25 February, 2011)
Michael K Gould

Airway pathology

Original article: Development of the bronchial epithelial reticular basement membrane: relationship to epithelial height and age (13 January, 2011)
Lemonia Tsartsali, Alison A Hislop, Karen McKay, Alan L James, John Elliot, Jie Zhu, Mark Rosenthal, Donald N Payne, Peter K Jeffery, Andrew Bush, Sejal Saglani

Lung cancer

Original article: Lymph node ratio as a prognostic factor in elderly patients with pathological N1 non-small cell lung cancer (2 December, 2010)
Juan P Wisnivesky, Jacqueline Arciniega, Grace Mhango, John Mandeli, Ethan A Halm
Original article: Multimodality approach to mediastinal staging in non-small cell lung cancer. Faults and benefits of PET-CT: a randomised trial (17 December, 2010)
Barbara M Fischer, Jann Mortensen, Hanne Hansen, Peter Vilmann, Søren S Larsen, Annika Loft, Anne K Bertelsen, Jesper Ravn, Paul Clementsen, Asbjørn Høegholm, Klaus R Larsen, Asger Dirksen, Birgit G Skov, Mark Krasnik, Liselotte Højgaard, Ulrik Lassen
Original article: Sex-specific trends in lung cancer incidence and survival: a population study of 40 118 cases (2 January, 2011)
Camilla M T Sagerup, Milada Småstuen, Tom B Johannesen, Åslaug Helland, Odd Terje Brustugun
Original article: UK Lung Screen (UKLS) nodule management protocol: modelling of a single screen randomised controlled trial of low-dose CT screening for lung cancer (11 February, 2011)
D R Baldwin, S W Duffy, N J Wald, R Page, D M Hansell, J K Field
Original article: Combined use of positron emission tomography and volume doubling time in lung cancer screening with low-dose CT scanning (17 December, 2010) Free
H Ashraf, A Dirksen, A Loft, A K Bertelsen, K S Bach, H Hansen, J H Pedersen, J Mortensen

Epidemiology

Original article: Randomised vitamin E supplementation and risk of chronic lung disease in the Women's Health Study (21 January, 2011)
Anne H Agler, Tobias Kurth, J Michael Gaziano, Julie E Buring, Patricia A Cassano

Pulmonary vasculature

Original article: Unexplained iron deficiency in idiopathic and heritable pulmonary arterial hypertension (5 February, 2011)
Elaine Soon, Carmen M Treacy, Mark R Toshner, Robert MacKenzie-Ross, Vijay Manglam, Mark Busbridge, Mark Sinclair-McGarvie, Jayantha Arnold, Karen K Sheares, Nicholas W Morrell, Joanna Pepke-Zaba

Cystic fibrosis

Original article: Rhinovirus infection liberates planktonic bacteria from biofilm and increases chemokine responses in cystic fibrosis airway epithelial cells (2 February, 2011)
Sangbrita S Chattoraj, Shyamala Ganesan, Andrew M Jones, Jennifer M Helm, Adam T Comstock, Rowland Bright-Thomas, John J LiPuma, Marc B Hershenson, Umadevi S Sajjan

Respiratory infection

Original article: Microbial aetiology of community-acquired pneumonia and its relation to severity (21 January, 2011)
Catia Cillóniz, Santiago Ewig, Eva Polverino, Maria Angeles Marcos, Cristina Esquinas, Albert Gabarrús, Josep Mensa, Antoni Torres

Review

The law looks at assisted dying (18 February, 2011)
M A Branthwaite

PostScript

Letter: Severity-of-illness assessment in community-acquired pneumonia (26 October, 2010)
Kirsty Challen, Andrew Bentley, Darren Walter
Letter: Authors' reply (22 October, 2010)
Wei Shen Lim, British Thoracic Society Community Acquired Pneumonia Guidelines Committee
Letter: Is investigation of patients with haemoptysis and normal chest radiograph justified? (30 August, 2010)
A J Conway, J A Bennett, A D Richardson, M D Peake
Letter: The learning curve for EBUS-TBNA (20 November, 2010)
Neal Navani, Matthew Nankivell, Parthiban Nadarajan, Stephen P Pereira, Gabrijela Kocjan, Sam M Janes
Letter: Smokers commonly misperceive that nicotine is a major carcinogen: National survey data (29 September, 2010)
Nick Wilson, Jo Peace, Richard Edwards, Deepa Weerasekera
Letter: Quality assurance in endobronchial ultrasound (23 September, 2010)
Mark G Slade, Gerry C Slade
Letter: Authors' response (23 September, 2010)
S V Kemp, P L Shah
Letter: Effect of statins on cancer in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (26 October, 2010)
R P Young, R J Hopkins
Letter: Authors' reply (26 October, 2010)
Yvette R B M van Gestel, Don Poldermans
Letter: Diagnosing lung cancer earlier in the UK (15 November, 2010)
M Weir, W J A Anderson, Eoin Murtagh, Ronan Donnelly, Julian Leggett, Jason Wieboldt
Letter: Authors' response (15 November, 2010)
Richard Hubbard, David Baldwin
Letter: MRI in assessment of lung cancer (10 February, 2011)
Bruno Hochhegger, Edson Marchiori, Klaus Irion, Jose Moreira, Glaucia Zanetti
Letter: Risk disclosure prior to bronchoscopy (30 October, 2010)
Stephen M Bianchi, Shironjit Saha, Paul Anderson
Letter: Author's response: ‘risk disclosure prior to bronchoscopy’—Bianchi et al (30 October, 2010)
Shaun T O'Keeffe, Mateen Uzbeck, Colin Quinn
Letter: Factors that predict failure in home management of an acute exacerbation of COPD (6 September, 2010)
Eleanor M Dunican, Brenda M Deering, Dorothy M Ryan, Niamh M McCormack, Richard W Costello
Letter: ARDS outcomes: a marker of critical care quality in the UK? (1 October, 2010)
Matt P Wise, Nick Hart, Paul J Frost

Miscellanea

Pulmonary puzzle: An unusual cause of chest pain (11 November, 2010)
Brian Casserly, Michael K Atalay, Athena Poppas, James R Klinger, Muhanned Abu-Hijleh
Lung alert: The inhibition of anaplastic lymphoma kinase in non-small cell lung tumours with the ALK rearrangement may result in tumour shrinkage (10 February, 2011)
Louise Hancock
Lung alert: Tobacco-specific carcinogen NNK has an important role in lung cancer (13 October, 2010)
Leanne Burke

Images in thorax

A case of pulmonary typical carcinoid with an extensive oncocytic component showing intense uptake of FDG (12 November, 2010)
Toru Kadowaki, Shuichi Yano, Kunio Araki, Takeshi Tokushima, Nobuo Morioka

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April 2011 - Volume 66 - 4

Airwaves

Editorials

Airway pathology

Lung cancer

Epidemiology

Pulmonary vasculature

Cystic fibrosis

Respiratory infection

Review

PostScript

Miscellanea

Images in thorax

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April 2011 - Volume 66 - 4

Airwaves

Editorials

Airway pathology

Lung cancer

Epidemiology

Pulmonary vasculature

Cystic fibrosis

Respiratory infection

Review

PostScript

Miscellanea

Images in thorax

Issue Information