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This video demonstrates the authors’ technique for minimally invasive diaphragm plication.
December 13, 2017
Filmed at the STS 2017 Annual Meeting in Houston, Texas, Emily Farkas moderates a discussion on changing the perceptions of women in cardiothoracic surgery.
December 11, 2017
Find it here: The 4M Symposium on Robotic Thoracic Surgery on CTSNet.
December 11, 2017
This video demonstrates a mini-Ravitch operation for pectus carinatum or pectus excavatum.
December 7, 2017
Herbert Decaluwé of University Hospital Leuven in Belgium discusses complications during video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery.
December 4, 2017
These videos present techniques the authors have adopted to perform minimally invasive mediastinal surgery as an outpatient procedure.
November 29, 2017
Filmed at the 2017 STS Annual Meeting, Shanda Blackmon, Brendon Stiles, Vinay Badhwar, and Robert Cerfolio discuss maximizing efficiency in a cardiothoracic surgery practice.
November 27, 2017
This video demonstrates a right lower sublobar resection for an intralobar pulmonary sequestration that had an 8 mm systemic feeding vessel arising from the descending thoracic aorta.
November 22, 2017
Filmed at the 2017 STS Annual Meeting in Houston, Texas, Joel Dunning of the James Cook University Hospital in Middlesborough, UK, interviews Betty Tong of Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, about her path to cardiothoracic surgery.
November 20, 2017
This video shows a five-port technique for robot-assisted resection of hilar lung cancer.
November 15, 2017
The authors describe their technique for an S1+2 segmentectomy, discussing the anatomical landmarks and variations that are key in this procedure.