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Prof. Romano discusses the importance of having the conversation surrounding gender disparities in CT surgery and what she hopes to accomplish as STS president.
December 30, 2019
The authors present the case of the surgical treatment of a giant right lung mass, which compresses and displaces adjacent pulmonary parenchyma, mediastinum, and diaphragm, achieving total resection.
December 19, 2019
The authors describe the case report of a young woman with catamenial pneumothorax who underwent surgical treatment by robotic assisted thoracoscopy.
December 12, 2019
Joseph Shrager presents a discussion on the criteria to follow when removing pulmonary nodules and ground glass opacities.
December 9, 2019
In this video, the authors demonstrate a technique of robotic-assisted bronchoplasty using a continuous unidirectional barbed suture.
December 2, 2019
The authors present a left upper lobe trisegmentectomy (S1+2+3) for a primary adenocarcinoma over a previous pneumocytoma.
November 27, 2019
The authors present the case of a 79-year-old man with early stage lung cancer in the left apicoposterior segment.
November 20, 2019
In this video, the authors demonstrate a robotic right lower lobe sleeve resection for a carcinoid tumor.
November 14, 2019
Joseph Shrager of Stanford University in California presents a discussion on the International Thymic Malignancy Interest Group's influence on the management of thymoma.
November 13, 2019
The authors report the case of a 50-year-old woman suffering from lymphoblastic leukemia, developing left upper lobe aspergilloma during aplastic chemotherapy, and presenting partial anomalous pulmonary vein connection of the left upper lobe, who submitted to pulmonary resection.
November 12, 2019
This case report describes a young woman who presented with severe respiratory distress due to a spontaneous diaphragmatic hernia that was caused by labor contractions, which was managed by the emergency surgical repair of the diaphragm.