M. Blair Marshall
Watch the June 18 recording of the ISMICS 2022 Thoracic Masters Session 3A: My Favorite Case. Topics discussed include robotic-assisted VATS apical segmentectomy with NIR imaging, UVATS basal segmentectomy for the removal of a large...
A 10-year-old boy presented with a carcinoid tumor obstructing the left upper lobe bronchus. He underwent VATS sleeve lobectomy. Initially, the authors attempted to perform a bronchotomy with reconstruction, however...
Drs M. Blair Marshall, Virginia Litle, Andrea Wolf, and Mara Antonoff discuss the importance of having a support network, the joy they get from their careers and their families, and...
Leanne Harling, M. Blair Marshall, Takashi Suda, and Joel Dunning discuss minimally invasive approaches, patient positioning, and the future of thymoma surgery.
...Joel Dunning interviews M. Blair Marshall about her approach to minimally invasive general thoracic surgery, with particular consideration of mediastinal tumors and thymomas.
...The authors have previously described a parenchymal-sparing sleeve resection of the bronchus intermedius for isolated strictures (1). Recently, they described a robotic parenchymal-sparing bronchus intermedius sleeve resection in a patient...
A 15-year-old girl initially presented with complete obstruction of her left main stem bronchus with complete atelectasis of the left lung. She had been like this for one year. The...
Filmed at the 2017 STS Annual Meeting in Houston, Texas, Blair Marshall of Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC, moderates a discussion on the experience of motherhood as a cardiothoracic...
As thoracic surgery has progressed to more minimally invasive techniques, opportunities to continue innovation and change other aspects of these procedures have arisen. The author’s current protocol for mediastinal surgery...
This video demonstrates the second phase of a minimally invasive Ivor Lewis esophagectomy. The author begins with four 5 mm ports and intrathoracic CO2 insufflation. The esophagus is dissected and...
The video demonstrates the hand port technique for the gastric mobilization phase of a minimally invasive Ivor Lewis esophagectomy. The author prefers this technique for a number of reasons. The...
The author demonstrates the technique for a VATS sleeve lobectomy in an 82-year-old woman. A three-port technique is used, with a 5 mm, 10 mm, and a utility port. To...
An asymptomatic patient was being followed for a central right upper lobe pulmonary nodule. After eight years, the nodule began to grow and a biopsy revealed it to be a...









