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May 27, 2025 | James Ackah

This video demonstrates a uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) right segment 7 segmentectomy. This was a rare procedure that nicely delineated the anatomy and how it was visible from an anterior uniport VATS approach. The...

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November 1, 2022 | Mohamed Diab

Following the recent two major trials (JCOG0802 and CALGB 140503), segmentectomies in favorable conditions are being adopted internationally. However, complex segmentectomies, such as an apical right upper lobe, can be...

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December 14, 2021 | James Ackah

The patient in this case is a sixty-eight-year-old male with a background of bowel adenocarcinoma (pT3aN1a) resected in 2019. Follow-up surveillance demonstrated two suspicious, enlarging non-fluorodeoxyglucose lesions in the right...

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April 14, 2021 | Tim Batchelor

In these two videos, the authors present two demonstrations of near infra-red imaging technology to provide visualization of pulmonary anatomical segments for segmentectomy. Pulmonary segments are anatomically and functionally independent...

Article
April 27, 2020 | Eveline Internullo

Providing lung cancer surgery during the COVID-19 crisis presents many challenges. Cancer services must minimize exposure to health care workers and manage the higher risks associated with surgery during the...

Article
April 8, 2020 | Rajdeep Bilkhu

To date, one million confirmed cases of SARS-CoV-2 virus have been reported worldwide with a death toll of over 50,000 (1). Particular concern has been raised regarding the exposure of...