Table 4. Review of publication for extended lung resections.

Publication year	Author	Country	No. patient	Period
				From	To
1971	Charles P. Bailey	USA	2	–	–
1991	Takayuki Shirakusa	Japan	12	–	–
1993	Maeda	Japan	42	–	–
1994	Ryosuke Tsuchiya	Japan	101	1962	1991
1994	Nael Martini	USA	44	1974	1984
1994	Thomas	France	15	1981	1991
1994	Roviaro	–	28	1983	1992
1995	Dartevelle	France	14	–	–
1995	Jakob R. Izbicki	Germany	94	1987	1990
1995	Tatsuo Fukuse	Japan	42	1976	1993
1996	Dartevelle and Macchiarini	–	60	–	–
1996	Pitz	The Netherlands	70	1977	1993
1997	Fukuse	Japan	42	1976	1993
1999	Takao Takahashi	Japan	49	1980	1996
1999	Walter Klepetko	Austria	7	1991	1996
1999	Mitchell	USA	135	1962	1999
2000	Spaggiari	France	25	1983	1996
2001	Mitchell	USA	60	1973	1998
2001	Victor A. Tarasov	Russia	50	–	–
2001	Oda	Japan	24	1981	1999
2001	Bernard A	France	77	1990	1998
2002	Mezzetti	Italy	27	1979	1999
2002	Spaggiari	France	93	1985	2000
2002	Ara A. Vaporciyan	USA	19	–	–
2002	Porhanov	Russia	151	1979	2002
2003	Cordula C.M. Pitz	The Netherlands	89	–	–
2003	Seiki Hasegawa	Japan	11	–	–
2003	Pitz	The Netherlands	89	1977	1993
2004	Spaggiari	Italy	15	1963	2000
2004	John G. Byrne	USA	14	–	–
2004	Ratto	Italy	19	1996	2004
2004	Bobbio	Italy	23	1982	2001
2005	Regnard	France	65	1983	2002
2005	Shargall	Canada	15	1988	2003
2005	Lorenzo Spaggiari	Italy	15	–	–
2005	Mitsunori Ohta	Japan	16	–	–
2006	Macchiarini	Spain	50	2000	2006
2006	Roviaro	Italy	53	1983	2004
2006	De Perrot	France	119	1981	2004
2008	Rea	Italy	49	1982	2005
2008	Francesco Petrella	Italy	21	–	–
2008	Bedrettin Yýldýzeli	France	271	–	–
2009	Wu	China	46	2000	2006
2010	Wang	China	48	1996	2008
2013	Lorenzo Spaggiari	Italy	125	1998	2010
2014	Geraud Galvaing	–	19	2004	2012
2016	Waldemar Schreiner1	Germany	9	–	–
2016	Langer	France	373	1980	2013