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This article shares 15 years’ worth of experience of bronchoscopy. Originally designed for cardiothoracic surgical trainees, others will find it resourceful. In particular, it’s a good reference to have for pulmonologists and trainees, anesthetists, intensivists...
General thoracic surgeons are faced with challenges thrown at them from time to time. This video demonstrates accessing multiple nodal stations, including a contralateral nodal station. Meticulous study of the...
IntroductionMany thoracic surgeons are terrified to come anywhere near the recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN), especially on the left side. The reason for this fear is the dreaded complication of damaging...
This video presents the case of a 65-year-old woman with a neuroendocrine tumor in her left lower lobe. The tumor invaded the pericardium and was staged as M1a, for which...
The authors present the case of a 42-year-old male patient with a chest x-ray that suggested a cyst abutting his left diaphragm. The CT scan suggested a cyst with homogenous...
Complementary to a previous video describing repair of a right Bochdalek hernia, this video explains how to deal with a left one. The patient was a 46-year-old male who was...
This video demonstrates a VATS repair of a symptomatic adult congenital right Bochdalek hernia and plication of the diaphragm. A 41-year-old female patient presented with worsening shortness of breath and...
Systematic nodal dissection is increasingly becoming an integral part of VATS lobectomy for early lung cancer. This video gives details demonstrating the author’s technique of en-bloc mediastinal nodal dissection, which...







