Programme: 20th ESTS Annual Meeting: Suppl. 1 to Vol. 15 (10–13 June 2012)

iii Programme 20th European Conference on General Thoracic Surgery 10–13 June 2012, Messe Essen, Essen, Germany 08:20–08:25 EUROPA OPENING REMARKS 08:25–08:30 REPORT PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Pascal Thomas (President) (France) Jaroslaw Kuzdzal (Chair) (Poland) SESSION I: BROMPTON 08:30–10:30 EUROPA Award: ESTS-Brompton Prize (EUR 2000) for best abstract by first author ESTS member (8′ presentation + 4′ invited discussant + 8′ discussion) Pascal Thomas, President – Dirk Van Raemdonck, General Secretary – Eric Lim, Brompton Hospital Chairmen: 08:30 B-001 HIGH EMERGENCY WAITING LIST FOR LUNG TRANSPLANTATION: EARLY RESULTS OF A NATIONAL MULTICENTER STUDY Bastien Orsini, E. Sage, A. Olland, E. Cochet, M. Tabutin, M. Thumerel, F. Charot, M. Reynaud-Gaubert, C. Doddoli, P.A. Thomas (France) Invited Discussant: G. Alec Patterson, St Louis 08:50 B-002 THE EFFECTS OF LUNG RESECTION ON PHYSIOLOGICAL MOTOR ACTIVITY OF THE OESOPHAGUS Alfonso Fiorelli, G. Vicidomini, R. Milione, R. Grassi, A. Rotondo, M. Santini (Italy) Invited Discussant: Richard Berrisford, Plymouth 09:10 B-003 SERUM CONCENTRATION OF INTEGRIN-LINKED KINASE IN MALIGNANT PLEURAL MESOTHELIOMA AND AFTER ASBESTOS EXPOSITION Stefan B. Watzka, F. Posch, H.I. Pass, R. Flores, G.E. Hannigan, D. Bernhard, M. Weber, M.R. Mueller (Austria, United States, Australia) Invited Discussant: David Sugarbaker, Boston 09:30 B-004 THE EFFECT OF COMORBIDITY ON STAGE-SPECIFIC SURVIVAL IN RESECTED NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER PATIENTS Mark Krasnik, M. Lüchtenborg, E. Jakobsen, K. Linklater, A. Mellemgård, H. Møller (Denmark, United Kingdom) Invited Discussant: Eric Vallieres, Seattle 09:50 B-005 REGULATED TAILORED SUCTION VERSUS REGULATED SEAL: A PROSPECTIVE RANDOMIZED TRIAL ON AIR LEAK DURATION Alessandro Brunelli, M. Salati, C. Pompili, M. Refai, F. Xiumé, A. Sabbatini (Italy) Invited Discussant: Pierre-Emmanuel Falcoz, Strasbourg 10:10 B-006 THYMOMA AND THE AUGMENTED RISK TO DEVELOP AN EXTRATHYMIC MALIGNANCY: A MULTICENTRIC ITALIAN EXPERIENCE Pier Luigi Filosso, C. Galassi, F. Venuta, S. Margaritora, A. Terzi, O. Rena, M. Anile, F. Lococo, L. Bergamasco, E. Ruffini (Italy) Invited Discussant: Meinoshin Okumura, Osaka 10.30–11.00 Coffee Break 11:00–11.30 EUROPA SESSION II: FEATURED ABSTRACTS OUTCOME PERFORMANCE IN THORACIC SURGERY FORUM SESSION (7′ presentation + 3′ discussion) Chairmen: 11:00 Tom Treasure, Alessandro Brunelli (United Kingdom, Italy) F-007 ANALYSIS OF POTENTIAL QUALITY OUTCOME MEASURES FOR LUNG CANCER SURGERY ACROSS A UK CANCER NETWORK Annabel Sharkey, S.S.S. Begum, D. Hopkinson, T. Locke, J. Rao, J. Edwards (United Kingdom) MONDAY, 11 JUNE 2012 iv 11:10 F-008 TWO THORACIC SURGERY CENTRES, TWO COUNTRIES. PERFORMANCE COMPARISON IN EUROPEAN COMMUNITY CONTEXT Antonios Loizos, K. Athanassiadi, T. Molnar, L. Jakab, Z. Szanto (Greece, Hungary) 11:20 INVITED LECTURE by Prof Bernward Passlick, Freiburg, Germany, President, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Thoraxchirurgie “What are the requirements for a Thoracic Oncology Center? - The surgical point of view” 11:00–11.30 DEUTSCHLAND SESSION III: INTERESTING CASES Award: ESTS-Covidien Prize (free VATS Masterclass Elancourt) for best interactive presentation Sponsored by Covidien INTERACTIVE SESSION (10′ interactive presentation) Chairmen: 11:00 Cecilia Pompili, Servet Bolükbas (Italy, Germany) I-009 CHALLENGING POSTERIOR MEDIASTINAL MASS RESECTION 11:10 I-010 AN UNUSUAL COMPLICATION FOLLOWING CHEST WALL RESECTION AND RECONSTRUCTION Kostas Kostopanagiotou, P. Tcherveniakov, S.S.S. Begum, K. Papagiannopoulos (United Kingdom) 11:20 I-011 SURGERY FOR SYNCHRONOUS RIGHT UPPER AND RIGHT LOWER LOBE TUMOURS Erdal Okur, V. Baysungur, I. Yalcinkaya (Turkey) INVITED LECTURE 11:30-12:00 EUROPA INTRODUCTION Georgios Stamatis (Chair of LOC) (Germany) MAY THE PROBLEM BE HEAVY, THE SOLUTION IS ALWAYS LIGHT Lutz Freitag (Germany) PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS 12.00-12.45 EUROPA INTRODUCTION Dirk Van Raemdonck (President-elect) (Belgium) WORKING THE FUNDAMENTALS Pascal Thomas (President) (France) 13.00-14.00 Lunch 13.00-14.00 NEW YORK SESSION IV: MODERATED POSTERS (3′ presentation + 3′ discussion) Chairman: Kalliopi Athanassiadi, Athens Topic: PULMONARY NEOPLASTIC Moderators: Godehard Friedel, Biruta Witte (Germany) 13:00 Award: ESTS-Greek Pioneer Prize (EUR 500) for the best poster P-108 SCREENING PROGRAMME ON SURGICAL PROFILE IN THE THORACIC DEPARTMENT IMPACT OF THE REGIONAL LOW DOSE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY Tomasz Marjanski, R. Dziedzic, M. Jelitto-Gorska, I. Biadacz, J. Ksiazek, W. Rzyman (Poland) 13:06 P-109 EARLY LUNG CANCER DETECTION PROGRAMME: ITS IMPACT ON ACTIVITY OF THE LOCAL THORACIC SURGERY DEPARTMENT Tomasz Grodzki, J. Alchimowicz, J. Wojcik, B. Kubisa, J. Pierog, H. Janowski, L. Kochanowski, N. Wojcik (Poland) 13:12 P-110 13:18 P-111 CLINICOPATHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND PROGNOSTIC SIGNIFICANCE OF PREDOMINANT SUBTYPES IN SMALL-SIZED INVASIVE LUNG ADENOCARCINOMAS Tomohiro Haruki, J. Yoshida, G. Ishii, K. Aokage, T. Hishida, M. Nishimura, K. Nagai (Japan) THE GROUND GLASS OPACITY COMPONENT CAN BE ELIMINATED IN THE ASSESSMENT OF T FACTOR IN LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA Tomohiro Murakawa, C. Konoeda, T. Ito, Y. Inoue, A. Sano, K. Nagayama, J. Nakajima (Japan) 13:24 P-112 IMPACT OF EXTRATUMORAL LYMPHATIC PERMEATION ON POSTOPERATIVE SURVIVAL OF NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER PATIENTS Yuki Matsumura, T. Hishida, G. Ishii, Y. Shimada, K. Aokage, J. Yoshida, K. Nagai (Japan) 13:30 P-114 DOES LIGASURE® IN MEDIASTINAL LYMPH NODE DISSECTION IMPACT DRAINAGE DURATION? PRELIMINARY RESULTS Udo Anegg, J. Lindenmann, A. Maier, H. Renner, V. Matzi, F.M. Smolle-Jüttner (Austria) 13:36 P-115 CORRELATION BETWEEN PET SCAN AND PRO-INFLAMMATORY CYTOKINE DETECTED BY A NON-INVASIVE METHOD IN NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER B. Culla, L. Brussino, R. Giobbe, M. Malandra, M. Morando, C. Bucca, G. Rolla, M. Boita, A. Oliaro, Pier Luigi Filosso (Italy) Hassiba Smail, J.-M. Baste, J. Melki, J. Weber, C. Peillon (France) v 13:42 P-116 Corinna Ludwig, E. Stoelben (Germany) 13:48 P-117 SEALING OF BRONCHIAL STUMP AFTER PNEUMONECTOMY WITH TACHOCOMB PATCH A. Pavlunin, D. Korotin, Evgeny Medovarov, A. Artifexova, V. Gorshkov (Russian Federation) 13:54 P-121 THE MORTALITY AFTER SURGERY IN LUNG CANCER: SIGNIFICANCE OF COMORBIDITY AND SURGICAL COMPLICATIONS ON SURVIVAL Programme IS NEO-ADJUVANT CHEMORADIOTHERAPY A CONTRAINDICATION FOR TRACHEOBRONCHIAL SLEEVE RESECTION IN LUNG CANCER PATIENTS? Erik Jakobsen, J. Hauge, A. Green, M. Iachina (Denmark) SESSION V: VIDEOS (7′ presentation + 3′ discussion) 13:00–14.00 EUROPA Chairmen: Herbert Decaluwé, Stefano Margaritora (Belgium, Italy) V-012 13:10 V-013 13:20 V-014 THE LEFT THORACOTOMY APPROACH FOR SURGICAL EXCISION OF DISTAL TRACHEAL CARCINOMA IN THE PRESENCE OF RIGHT-SIDED AORTA Laura Socci, S. Tiwari, M. Kumaran, M. Malik, A.E. Martin-Ucar (United Kingdom) REPAIR OF COMPLETE STERNAL CLEFT ASSOCIATED WITH P (...truncated)