Marco Nardini
The neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy pathway has become the standard of care for patients with resectable, locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer without actionable mutations. Its increasing use has introduced novel technical challenges, as fibrotic changes, inflammatory...
This is the case of a 53-year-old woman, nonsmoker, diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma of the left thoracic outlet. The lesion involved the subclavian vessels, first left 2 ribs, and brachial...
The authors describe the case of a 64-year-old man presented with disfagia, weight loss, and halitosis over the last three years. The procedure is described step by step, and the...
This is the case of a 59-year-old woman affected by B3/C thymoma. Chemotherapy was complicated by hematological disorders and discontinued after two cycles. She had a partial response to radiotherapy...
The PulMiCC is a randomized clinical trial that tried to build more evidence for performing pulmonary metastasectomy in patients affected by advanced colorectal cancer and previously treated with curative intent....
In this Giants of Cardiothoracic Surgery interview, Marco Nardini of the University Hospital of Catania in Italy speaks with Franca Melfi, Professor of Thoracic Surgery, Chief of Robotic Multispecialty Center...
This video demonstrates a three-port anterior video-assisted thoracoscopic right upper lobectomy, for early stage lung cancer, performed with the aid of novel sealing and stapling devices. The LigaSure™ is used...
Microlobectomy is a surgical technique conceived by Mr Joel Dunning, in Middlesbrough, UK, in 2014 and previously described in the literature. In this video, the authors demonstrate the adoption of...
In this Giants of Cardiothoracic Surgery interview, Marco Nardini speaks with Antonio Maria Calafiore of the Prince Sultan Cardiac Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. They begin by highlighting the influence...
Mr Felice Granato demonstrates a thoracoscopic right upper lobectomy, which was performed for a primary pulmonary malignancy. The Harmonic HD was adopted for sealing of one of the segmental arteries...
The complete pathologic response rate in this study is revealed to be low, lower than expected after stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) for early stage non-small cell lung cancer: only 60%....
Minimally invasive segmentectomy is becoming a popular operation for the diagnosis and treatment of small pulmonary nodules. It is very technically challenging and the anatomic variations are often unpredictable. The...
This video demonstrates a posterolateral thoracotomy. The authors detail the procedure in a step-by-step fashion, using diagrams and surgical video to illustrate key technical elements. This video also shows a...








