%0 Journal Article %T Introduction: 2017 Taiwan Association of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery %A MD %A PhD %A PhD Jang-Ming Lee %A PhD Yin-Kai Chao %A Yih-Sharng Chen %J SCIE-indexed Journal %D 2017 %R 10.21037/jtd.2017.10.133 %X This special issue of the Journal of Thoracic Disease (JTD) represents 35 distinguished oral presentations that have been accepted in the field of Thoracic Surgery dedicated to the 16th annual meeting and conference of Taiwan Association of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery %U http://jtd.amegroups.com/article/view/16670/html