@article{cbc38c51c70548f5ae2e18f92936fb7f,
title = "Thoracic and cardiovascular surgeries in Japan during 2017: Annual report by the Japanese Association for Thoracic Surgery",
author = "{Committee for Scientific Affairs, The Japanese Association for Thoracic Surgery} and Hideyuki Shimizu and Morihito Okada and Akira Tangoku and Yuichiro Doki and Shunsuke Endo and Hirotsugu Fukuda and Yasutaka Hirata and Hisashi Iwata and Junjiro Kobayashi and Hiraku Kumamaru and Hiroaki Miyata and Noboru Motomura and Shoji Natsugoe and Soji Ozawa and Yoshikatsu Saiki and Aya Saito and Hisashi Saji and Yukio Sato and Tsuyoshi Taketani and Kazuo Tanemoto and Wataru Tatsuishi and Yasushi Toh and Hiroyuki Tsukihara and Masayuki Watanabe and Hiroyuki Yamamoto and Kohei Yokoi and Yutaka Okita",
note = "Funding Information: On behalf of the Japanese Association for Thoracic Surgery, the authors thank the Heads of the Affiliate and Satellite Institutes of Thoracic Surgery for their cooperation, and the Councilors of the Japan Esophageal Society.",
year = "2020",
month = apr,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1007/s11748-020-01298-2",
language = "English",
volume = "68",
pages = "414--449",
journal = "General thoracic and cardiovascular surgery",
issn = "1863-6705",
publisher = "Springer Japan",
number = "4",
}