Alper Toker
A 51-year-old nonsmoking female presented with recurrent pneumonia and a persistent cough. A chest computed tomography (CT) demonstrated an obstructive lesion in the left lower lobe bronchus with hyperinflation of the lower lobe. Positron emission...
The patient is a seventy-one-year-old male with a history of Hurthle cell carcinoma who initially underwent thyroidectomy and central neck dissection, follow by radioactive iodine. He developed recurrence after 10...
Costal margin reconstruction is a challenging technique but addresses the needs of slipping rib syndrome patients with complicating features including skeletal hypermobility disorders, multiple ipsilateral slipping ribs, rib deformities, and...
This video demonstrates the robotic resection of an extremely apically located posterior mediastinal mass in a patient who had a prior ipsilateral thoracotomy. It highlights the fact that robotic surgery...
The advent of low dose CT scans for lung cancer screening has resulted in increased detection of small lung nodules concerning for malignancy. Based on the location, some of these...
Pulmonary segmentectomy can be an adequate oncological lung resection for early stage lung cancer and deeper metastatic lesions. In select patients, the outcomes are comparable to lobectomy. Historically, this operation...
The authors present the case of a 79-year-old man with a distant history of smoking who presented with a slowly enlarging 1 cm nodule. This was initially found on surveillance...
Alper Toker of Florence Nightingale Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey, argues for the increased use of robotic approaches for lung resection procedures. Dr. Toker presents clinical data to support his position that...
Alper Toker of Istanbul University Medical School, Istanbul, Turkey, delivers a talk on the surgical options for treating pleural sepsis. Dr. Toker discusses the recent shift in the treatment of...
In patients with right sided lung cancer the superior mediastinum is either sampled or dissected completely. Patients with left sided cancer do not have this option due to technical difficulties...








