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Lung

June 24, 2024
This video demonstrates a redo RATS pleural metastasectomy of type B3 Thymoma (Masaoka stage II) and plication of the left diaphragm in the same setting.
June 20, 2024
This consensus paper released by the AATS puts forth 17 recommendations regarding subsolid lung nodules.
June 20, 2024
In this phase three national, multicenter, UK randomized controlled trial, the authors seek to compare outcomes after extended pleurectomy decortication plus chemotherapy versus chemotherapy alone. The trial recruited patients between 2015 and 2021 from 26 UK hospitals, recruiting and randomly assigning patients with a 1:1 allocation ratio.
June 17, 2024
This video demonstrates a robotic assisted lobectomy for an endobronchial tumor and subsequent bronchial closure with two continuous absorbable barbed loop sutures.
June 13, 2024
This editorial summarizes the landscape that led to the founding of the Thoracic Surgical Oncology Group in 2017, in an era when, due to various oncology group reorganizations, a need developed for a focused committee to conduct thoracic surgery oncology-based clinical trials. The group has expanded over the years to include 32 hospitals.
June 13, 2024
In this trial of 337 patients undergoing open or thoracoscopic lung resection randomized to postoperative chest drain removal based on a standard threshold of 200 mL/24 hours or 5 mL/kg/24 hours, there were no differences in pleural effusion, dyspnea, or time to chest drain removal; however, the weight-adjusted threshold was associated with earlier h
May 29, 2024
This study evaluated the surgical and oncological results of RATS thymectomy to demonstrate the approach as technically safe with acceptable outcomes. Of 669 patients, complete thymectomy was performed in 98 percent of cases and in 8.5 percent of those cases, resection of surrounding structures was undertaken.
May 23, 2024
Sublobar resection for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer has recently been compared with lobectomy in three randomized trials. This expert review summarizes and compares these three landmark trials and describes how these new data inform best practice.
May 16, 2024
Minimally invasive surgery is routinely used for thymectomies, and techniques continue to evolve. Yang developed and studied a modified subxiphoid approach for thymectomy utilizing VATS with a sternal retractor to improve visualization in the operative field.
May 14, 2024
This video describes the case of an S1a lung resection, exemplifying a strategic surgical workflow for the precise execution of a minimally invasive subsegmentectomy in response to anatomical configuration, employing low-cost, surgeon-performed 3D anatomic study to enhance intraoperative navigation.

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