This video demonstrates a uniportal VATS right lower lobe lobectomy for adenocarcinoma, using advanced instrumentation to decrease the number of instruments used and to achieve the best exposure inside the chest.
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September 8, 2017
The authors describe a new technique for localization of very small, non-visible, and non-palpable pulmonary lesions for video-assisted thoracoscopic sublobular resection.
September 6, 2017
This 3D video demonstrates a VATS diaphragm plication.
September 5, 2017
The last four days matter: larger changes in atmospheric pressure correlate with primary spontaneous pneumothorax. This paper matches two hospital databases with meteorologic data of a geographic area in Japan over more than five years.
September 4, 2017
A wide experience, from the Euorpean Institute of Oncology, on Pancoast tumors' treatment confirms that surgery is still the most important step of the multimodality approach for the patients affected by this condition.
August 31, 2017
Rene Petersen of Copenhagen University Hospital in Denmark describes using VATS for difficult resections.
August 28, 2017
This video demonstrates an infraclavicular approach to managing Paget-Schroetter Syndrome, a form of thoracic outlet obstruction.
August 25, 2017
Women cardiothoracic surgeons accepted The New Yorker OR Cover Challenge, and CTSNet is excited to share the completed photo collage.
August 22, 2017
This is an expert summary of the evidence for thymectomy in nonthymomatous myasthenia gravis, titled Thymectomy and myasthenia gravis: A history of surgical passion and scientific excellence.
It really suggests that this operation is the standard of care for these patients if they are ACh-positive and young and MGFA II or above.
August 22, 2017
This video demonstrates a pericardial patch repair of the right main bronchus intermedius following removal of a subcarinal bronchogenic cyst.