This video illustrates optimal robot docking, port placement, and surgical technique for a robot-assisted right-sided diaphragmatic plication.
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Thoracic
January 28, 2017
Using pigs as an experimental model, the authors demonstrated incorporation of bioengineered tracheal grafts in large tracheal defects. The grafts were constructed of acellular bovine dermis extracellular matrix and human mesenchymal stem cells incubated with chondogenic factors. The authors demonstrated that the use of stem cells resulted in chond
January 26, 2017
This video demonstrates a uniportal VATS middle lobe lobectomy in a 56-year-old female patient with a primary early stage lung adenocarcinoma.
January 25, 2017
In a bold and very challenging move, thoracic surgeons at Toronto General Hospital (TGH) removed severely infected lungs from a dying mom, keeping her alive without them for six days, so that she could recover enough to receive a life-saving lung transplant.
January 24, 2017
This video demonstrates a sternal resection followed by reconstruction with a titanium mesh for a local recurrence of breast cancer.
January 19, 2017
A diverse group of surgeons share their unique and inspiring stories regarding what motivated them to pursue a career in cardiothoracic surgery.
January 18, 2017
Walter Klepetko of the Medical University of Vienna, Austria, gives a detailed talk on the options available for complex airway resections in a variety of conditions.
January 16, 2017
This video will take a learner through the necessary steps to create a 3D model. The process of image acquisition, DICOM import, segmentation, modeling, creation of the STL file, and actual printing is reviewed.
January 10, 2017
This video describes the technique for a VATS-assisted chest wall resection and reconstruction of a large chest wall mass with intrathoracic extension in a healthy 26-year-old male. Management principles of chest wall tumors are reviewed.
January 9, 2017
In this video, the authors show the the McKeown esophagectomy technique utilized for patients with mid and distal esophageal cancers.