Erratum to: Thoracic and cardiovascular surgery in Japan during 2013: Annual report by The Japanese Association for Thoracic Surgery(Gen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg, 2015, 63, (670-701), 10.1007/s11748-015-0590-3)

摘要

The following errors appeared in the above-cited article. (A) Cardiovascular surgery section: in the 3rd paragraph, on the 4th line, “9168 cases in 2003” should read “9165 cases in 2003”; on the 6th line, “15,757 cases in thoracic aortic aneurysm” should read “15,758 cases in thoracic aortic aneurysm”; on the 8th line, “4.0, 4.6 and 14.6 %, respectively” should read “4.0, 4.7 and 14.6 %, respectively”; on the 10th line, “16,752 cases” should read “16,560 cases”; and on the 13th line, “83.4 % increase” should read “83.8 % increase”. In the 5th paragraph, on the 14th line, “6.7 % in 2003” should read “6.9 % in 2003”. In the 6th paragraph, on the 2nd line, “83.4 %” should read “83.8 %”; on the 4th line, “placement” should read “replacement”, and “2.2 and 3.7 %” should read “2.9 and 5.4 %”; on the 6th line, “0.8 %” should read “1.1 %”; on the 25th line, “38.2 %” should read “38.3 %”; and on the 26th line, “41.9 %” should read “59.4 %”. In the 7th paragraph, on the 11th line, “23.4 %” should read “22.4 %”. In the 8th paragraph, on the 3rd line, “1.0 and 1.7 %” should read “0.8 and 1.4 %”; on the 10th line, “5.5 %” should read “7.3 %”; and on the 14th line, “8.5–6.4 %” should read “8.0–6.4 %”. In the 9th paragraph, on the 2nd line, “414 operations” should read “840 operations”; and on the 4th line, “298 operations” should read “371 operations”. In the 11th paragraph, on the 6th (Table presented.) line, “8171 cases” should read “8971 cases”; and on the 9th line, “2.2 %” should read “3.2 %”. In the 13th paragraph, on the 4th line, “42 % increase” should read “4.2 % increase”. Additionally, there are some errors in the following tables. Table 3 (3), on the 4th line (4 Damus–Kaye–Stansel operation), values of the columns “Neonate; Hospital mortality”, “Infant; 30-day mortality; Hospital”, and “Infant; Hospital mortality” should be “1 (33.3)”, “4 (8.0)”, and “6 (12.0)”, not “1”, “4”, and “6”, respectively. The title for Table 9 should read “Pacemaker ? ICD (total; 4660)”. In (B) General thoracic surgery section, Table 33, the first line of the column “30- day mortality; Hospital” should read “7 (0.4)”, not “7 (1.4)”. Other tables with errors and their corrections are given below.