Richard Whyte of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, discusses the evidence in favor of lung volume reduction surgery for patients with emphysema.
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Lung - Other
May 15, 2017
This video shows a VATS pneumonectomy in a patient with a 20-year history of bronchiectasis.
April 26, 2017
The authors present the case of a 20-year-old woman who underwent uniportal VATS for treatment of a large hydatid cyst.
March 24, 2017
Paul Van Schil of Antwerp University Hospital, Antwerp, Belgium argues that surgery offers the best outcome for patients with mesothelioma.
March 16, 2017
Robert Rintoul of Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK, reviews the outcomes of major mesothelioma trials, and argues that all mesothelioma surgery is currently palliative.
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 4, 2017
This video demonstrates a fissureless VATS resection of the posterior segment of the right upper lobe.
January 2, 2017
There is a rediscovered interest in use of a subxiphoid incision to perform lung surgery. This work follows a review of 105 lobectomies published in March 2016 in the Journal of Thoracic Disease from the same institution, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital.
November 23, 2016
This video shows a robotic left lower lobectomy with the incidental discovery of the superior pulmonary vein coming from a strange anatomical location.
October 17, 2016
This video shows a uniportal lobectomy in a 14-month-old patient with a left side congenital pulmonary airway malformation.