Meet the Professor

The "Meet the Professor" series features interviews with the global Key Opinion Leaders. Recently, International Thymic Malignancy Interest Group (ITMIG) has launched the initiative: May – Thymic Malignancy Awareness Month with a series of events including the interviews with mediastinal disease experts released on the journal Mediastinum. Prof. Conrad Falkson, Prof. Paul Van Schil, Prof. Ritsuko Komaki, and Prof. Meinoshin Okumura as prominent experts in the field of thymic diseases, was invited for the interview.

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Mediastinal Cysts (Ongoing)

The series on “Mediastinal Cysts” is edited by Dr. Nestor Villamizar (University of Miami, USA). This series will discuss the diagnosis and surgical management of mediastinal cysts and provide reviews on various types of the mediastinal cysts, including pericardial cyst, thymic cyst, esophageal duplication cyst, and bronchogenic cyst.

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Mediastinum Annual Report 2021

We are pleased to present a brief report on the progress of Mediastinum in 2021. Some of the highlights include:

- Mediastinum has an internationalized multidisciplinary editorial board of 88 members.
- Mediastinum has 40 articles published in 2021 and has 8 special series exploring trending topics (2 completed and 6 ongoing).
- Website pageviews and users have continued to rise. In particular, the pageviews reached 68,465 in 2021 representing a 44% increase compared to 2020, and the number of users went up to 26,152 representing a 34% increase, according to data of Google Analytics.

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New treatments and novel insights of thymic epithelial tumors and mediastinal germ cell tumors (Ongoing)

The series on “New treatments and novel insights of thymic epithelial tumors and mediastinal germ cell tumors” is edited by Drs Margaret Ottaviano & Giovannella Palmieri, Rare Tumors Reference Center, University Federico II, Naples, Italy.

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Minimally Invasive (Endoscopic) Mediastinal Staging of Lung Cancer

The aim of the focused series is to give a thorough and up-to-date view of mediastinal staging in patients with lung cancer, discussing the present and future role of endoscopic techniques.

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Mediastinum is now a member of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)

Starting from July 2021, AME Publishing Company is formally recognized a publisher member of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and over 60 AME-published journals become a member of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), as part of AME’s commitment to best practice in scholarly publishing. Mediastinum is among the list of COPE membership.

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Mediastinal Pathology (Ongoing)

This special series on “Mediastinal Pathology” is edited by Dr. Cesar A. Moran. This series aims to provide insight and overviews on the pathology of various types of mediastinal tumors and different techniques used.

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Management of Airway and Vascular Invasion in the Mediastinum (Ongoing)

This special series on “Management of Airway and Vascular Invasion in the Mediastinum” is edited by Dr. Roberto F. Casal and Dr. Bruce Sabath. This series covers various management strategies for airway and vascular invasion in the Mediastinum and includes the perspectives of experts from different subspecialties (interventional pulmonologist, gastroenterologist, bronchoscopist, and anesthesiologist).

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Management of Giant Mediastinal Tumors (Ongoing)

The series on “Management of Giant Mediastinal Tumors” is edited by Dr. Ryuichi Waseda (Fukuoka University, Japan) and Pietro Bertoglio (IRCCS Bologna University Hospital , Italy). This series will cover the pathological, oncological, radiological, anesthesiological, and surgical management of Giant Mediastinal Tumors.

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Mediastinoscopic Surgery

The series on “Mediastinoscopic Surgery” is edited by Dr. Marcin Zielinski, from Department of Thoracic Surgery, Pulmonary Hospital, Zakopane, Poland; and Dr. Qingdong Cao, Department of Thoracic Surgery.

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Traumatic Injuries of the Mediastinum (Ongoing)

This series on “Traumatic Injuries of the Mediastinum” is edited by Dr. Simon R. Turner, Division of Thoracic Surgery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. This series is to cover a wide rang of traumatic injuries of the mediastinum in diverse sites.

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Mediastinal Sarcomas

This special series of Mediastinum attempts to provide multiple concise review articles written by experts with special interest in the topic discussing some of the more common as well as less common mediastinal sarcomas in an attempt to provide an up to date discussion and broad overview of mediastinal sarcomas. In addition to the histopathology, clinical and radiological features will be presented and discussed. An overview of the role of molecular genetic mechanisms underlying the many types of soft tissue sarcomas that occur within the mediastinum is provided. We hope that these articles will be helpful to those practicing physicians who encounter these rare lesions.

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Pediatric Mediastinal Tumors

The series “Pediatric Mediastinal Tumors” was edited by Dr. Deepali Jain, Department of Pathology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.

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