M. Blair Marshall
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 this distorted the bronchial reconstruction,...
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 thoracic outlet is an anatomically challenging location for thoracic surgeons due to the bony obstructions and the compact anatomy of great vessels and nerves. The authors demonstrate their technique...
VATS can be used for a variety of thoracic procedures. Here the author demonstrates the technique for first rib resection. The procedure starts with three 5mm ports, with the inferior...
This video demonstrates a minimally invasive resection of a large thymoma in a morbidly obese patient. The utility of cardiac MR in operative planning, intra-thoracic CO2, angled cameras, and subxyphoid...
In a roundtable filmed at the 2016 STS Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, a group of expert discuss innovations in surgery for thymoma. Leanne Harling of Imperial College, London, UK,...
A diverse group of surgeons share their unique and inspiring stories regarding what motivated them to pursue a career in cardiothoracic surgery.
...“I think one of the critical aspects of switching to a minimally invasive approach is really understanding the anatomy exquisitely from the angle you are viewing it,” M. Blair Marshall...
This video presents the case of a patient with a very complex medical history. She was born with esophageal atresia and tracheo-esophageal fistula. She underwent an attempted primary repair, but...
This video demonstrates a technique for laparoscopic repair of a Morgagni hernia, with and without excision of the sac. Two cases are shown.
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