Surgeons often look to make the smallest incision possible to facilitate faster postoperative recovery. This video shows how to make a smaller incision when performing a VATS excision of pleural mass excision.
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VATS
Uniportal Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Right Lower Lobectomy with Bronchoplasty of Right Middle Lobe
February 10, 2022
The penetration of uniportal VATS for lung cancer surgery has pushed surgeons to perform complex sleeve resections using the same approach. This video demonstrates uniportal VATS bronchoplasty of the right middle lobe for a case of right lower lobe NSCLC.
February 3, 2022
This clinical video reviews how a virtual reality (PulmoVR) and 3D platform (Pulmo3D) have contributed to the planning and execution (including surgical steps) of a complex video assisted thoracoscopic surgical (VATS) S3 segmentectomy.
January 31, 2022
This video demonstrates a case of successful removal of a fractured chemoport catheter (6.5cm) that embolized into the left pulmonary artery using a left video assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) approach.
December 14, 2021
A Demonstration of Right VATS 9 and 10 bi-segmentectomy for metastatic bowel adenocarcinoma. A lung parenchymal sparing procedure.
October 25, 2021
The authors describe a technique for simultaneously completing a lung resection and adrenalectomy safely through a VATS approach.
October 4, 2021
This video describes a uniportal VATS left lower lobectomy using an anterior approach.
September 13, 2021
The authors present a robotic left upper lobe sleeve lobectomy in a 20-year-old man with a typical carcinoid tumor.
August 18, 2021
This video reviews a pulmonary artery bleed that occurred during an attempted VATS lingula-sparing left upper lobectomy and discusses the authors experience with hemostatic agents for pulmonary artery bleeding, as well as lessons learned from this case.
August 16, 2021
In this case, we describe the VATS resection of enlarged, PET FDG positive, right cardiophrenic lymph nodes in a patient with previous breast cancer and mediastinal lymphoma, which had been treated by chemoradiotherapy.