Benjamin Palleiko
This video demonstrates robot-assisted esophageal mobilization as part of a McKeown esophagectomy for a 53-year-old patient with distal esophageal adenocarcinoma. Following neoadjuvant FLOT chemotherapy, the patient exhibited a favorable response, prompting surgical resection. The procedure...
The authors present the case of a 62-year-old female who underwent a right lower lobectomy for stage 1B adenocarcinoma. During the procedure, an injury to the membranous trachea caused by...
This video demonstrates a robotic diaphragm plication with a focus on technique and technical pearls. The patient is a seventy-two-year-old woman with a history of phrenic nerve paralysis secondary to...
Nissen fundoplication is frequently performed by thoracic surgeons. This video shares the authors’ twelve-step operative technique for a robotic Nissen fundoplication. The patient is a sixty-three-year-old man with a history...
The patient is a sixty-seven-year-old woman, nonsmoker, with a history of ocular myasthenia gravis and a strong family history of autoimmune disease. First, a chest CT scan was performed, which...
This video presents a robotic left lateral basilar (S9) segmentectomy. The patient was a fifty-six-year-old female with a sixty-pack-per-year smoking history and a two-year history of left lower lobe nodule...
This video shows a robotic right upper lobectomy in twelve steps with a focus on technique, technical pearls, and anatomy. The patient is a sixty-four-year-old woman with a 10.5 pack-per-year...
This article details the step-by-step procedure for a robot-assisted left upper lobectomy and mediastinal lymphadenectomy in a sixty-two-year-old male. Background The patient had a past medical history of significant tobacco...
In this video, we present a patient with a recurrent paraesophageal hernia who underwent robot-assisted laparoscopic re-do paraesophageal hernia repair with Nissen fundoplication. The patient is a 76M with a...






