Feiran Lou
Introduction The authors present a right-sided robotic resection of an enlarging anterior mediastinal mass, emphasizing the operative strategy, anatomic landmarks, and key decision points. Clinical Presentation and Workup A 54-year-old man with several years of...
Case Presentation A 31-year-old female presented with recurrent pneumonias and progressive shortness of breath attributed to suspected congenital lobar emphysema of the left upper lobe. She was initially evaluated by...
The patient was a 67-year-old male with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), pulmonary Mycobacterium avium complex infection, a left lower lobe pulmonary nodule, and a 30 pack-year smoking history. He...
Introduction The authors present the case of a 77-year-old male with a significant smoking history who underwent a robotic left lower lobectomy with bronchoplasty. Computed tomography (CT) imaging revealed a...
This video presents the case of a 76-year-old male with a significant smoking history who underwent a robotic left upper division trisegmentectomy for a suspicious nodule in the left upper...
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...










