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Thoracic

July 4, 2018
Bone allograft is used in orthopedics for filling bony defects and restoring skeletal continuity. The authors have applied it to chest wall reconstruction and long-term stabilization.
July 3, 2018
Joseph Dearani, Chair of the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, graciously shares a copy of the letter with which he welcomes cardiothoracic surgery residents as they embark on their rotation on his service.
July 2, 2018
This video demonstrates a robotic right upper lobectomy, performed using the Cerfolio method of port placement.
June 27, 2018
The authors demonstrate a posterobasal anatomical segmentectomy of the left lower lobe, one of the most challenging sublobar resections through uniportal VATS.
June 27, 2018
A brief, readable, sensibly balanced, and well-referenced editorial on the occasion of the retrospective Austrian paper on venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO).
June 26, 2018
Sample size calculations are a necessary prerequisite in the design of clinical studies. Most often, they are encountered in randomized controlled trials. Hickey and colleagues describe the reasoning behind determinations of sample size and illustrate some basic calculations.
June 25, 2018
This written and video case review from Osho and colleagues centers on a 54-year-old woman who suffered smoke inhalation injury as a result of a house fire. Following prolonged intubation, mechanical ventilation, open tracheostomy tube placement, and recurrent pneumonia, the patient was diagnosed with a tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF).
June 25, 2018
This video demonstrates technical aspects of robotic-assisted decortication for fibrothorax, including port placement, robot docking, and closure.
June 21, 2018
Park and Kim describe the construction and use of semimanufactured eight-branched aortic graft for open repair of thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm. The authors review the results of open repair using this graft in 12 patients, eight of whom had Marfan syndrome.
June 20, 2018
The author details tips and tricks to help practicing surgeons complete a minimally invasive esophagectomy.

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