Lorenzo Spaggiari
This video shows the case of a thirty-eight-year-old patient with a previous history of colonic cancer and Lynch syndrome. She was referred to the thoracic surgery department because of a pulmonary mass in the right...
Holography is a method of creating three-dimensional images called holograms. These are made by superimposing a second wavefront, usually defined as a reference beam, on the wavefront of interest. This...
The cardiophrenic angle lymph nodes were classified by Rouvière (1) as diaphragmatic lymph nodes and divided into: 1) Anterior (prepericardic) draining portions of the diaphragm, liver , pleura, and abdominal...
Pulmonary metastases excision is indicated for lung-sparing resection of small and central lesions when wedge resection or segmentectomy are unfeasible. This procedure can be challenging in case of deep-located metastases...
Partial anomalous pulmonary vein connection (PAPVC) is due to the failure of one or more of the pulmonary veins to be incorporated into the left atrium, thus flowing into the...
Pericardial cysts are benign and rare congenital malformations with an incidence of 1 in 100,000, representing about 7% of mediastinal masses [1]. Pericardial cysts— as well as pericardial diverticula— are...
Introduction Glomus tumors (GT) are rare benign neoplasms mostly affecting the deep dermis of extremities, and they constitute less than 2% of all soft tissue tumors. GTs can sporadically appear...
This video showed a robotic right upper lobectomy for stage IIIA-pN2 non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) following induction chemotherapy. The patient underwent three cycles of cisplatinum-based induction chemotherapy, and then...
Introduction Breast cancer can sporadically relapse in the subclavicular region, localizing in the lymph nodes around the axillary blood vessels of the axillary apex and often invading the neurovascular bundle...
Introduction Invasive thymic tumors with superior vena cava infiltration are rare and aggressive clinical entities. For these patients, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, or both may be indicated, but when surgical intervention is...
Introduction Dr Oscar Clagett described the open window thoracostomy in 1963 for treating postpneumonectomy empyema. This technique is still used in the management of bronchopleural fistula after lung resection. The...
This video shows the authors’ first experience with a robotic stapler. The robotic stapler was used for two right lung diagnostic wedge resections (one for a solid tumor, one for...
Robotic anatomic lung segmentectomy is a feasible and safe procedure. In patients with metastatic cancer to the lung who are eligible for surgery, anatomic segmentectomy may be beneficial as a...










