This special series on “The Role of Minimally Invasive Approaches in the Pulmonary Oligometastases” is co-edited by Dr. Anthony W Kim and Dr. Takashi Harano. 

Anthony W. Kim, MD
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Anthony W. Kim M.D. is an academic general thoracic surgeon and Professor of Clinical Surgery who holds the Jeffrey P. Smith Endowed Chair of Surgery as the Chief of the Division of Thoracic Surgery at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California. His busy clinical practice has been dedicated to surgical therapy for the entire range of thoracic diseases. Utilizing minimally invasive approaches in thoracic surgery including video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery and robotic thoracic surgery are central to his practice. In addition to other clinical and translational areas of interest, his core research efforts focus on studying thoracic surgery issues using large databases. He is highly regarded as a faculty mentor to many surgical trainees and practicing surgeons due to his special expertise in teaching minimally invasive thoracic surgery. He serves on the editorial board for a number of other major scientific surgical journals and is a member of several thoracic surgery organizations.

Takashi Harano, MD
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Dr. Harano is a thoracic surgeon at Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California. He graduated from Kumamoto University School of Medicine and was trained at Toranomon Hospital in Tokyo, Japan and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. His clinical interests focus on minimally invasive Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation. He is board-certified by the Japanese Association for Chest Surgery.

Series outline: 

1. Editorial 
2. The role of minimally invasive anatomic resection in pulmonary metastasectomy 
3. Minimally invasive surgery for metastatic primary lung cancer 
4. Minimally invasive pulmonary metastasectomies for large foci of disease 
5. Hybrid approaches to pulmonary metastases with radiation, ablation, minimally invasive resection, and other approaches 
6. Simultaneous versus staged minimally invasive resections for bilateral pulmonary metastases 
7. Uniportal lung metastasectomy 
8. Image-guided and bronchoscopic localization techniques used to facilitate minimally invasive pulmonary metastasectomies
9. The role and benefit of minimally invasive repeat metastasectomy
10. The outcomes associated with lymphadenectomy during the metastasectomy
11. Minimally invasive metastasectomy for head and neck malignancies
12. Minimally invasive metastasectomy for skin and soft tissue malignancies: sarcomas, melanoma, and breast cancer
13. Minimally invasive metastasectomy for colon cancer
14. Minimally invasive metastasectomy for urologic and gynecologic malignancies
15. What and when is the role for metastasectomy in esophageal, pancreas, and other malignancies in which resection is not classically offered?
16. Pulmonary metastasectomy in pediatric patients 

Disclosure:
The series “The Role of Minimally Invasive Approaches in the Pulmonary Oligometastases” was commissioned by the editorial office, Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery without any sponsorship or funding. Anthony W Kim and Takashi Harano are serving as unpaid Guest Editors for the series.