Marco Scarci
Find it here: the 2019 International Thoracic Oncology Symposium, formerly the VATS Symposium, taking place in Milan, Italy. Friday, November 8, 20198:45 am – 4:10 pm CEST (1:45 – 9:10 am CST) Tune in for...
The 2019 Annual Meeting of the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (ESTS) was held in Dublin, Ireland, June 9-12, 2019. On June 9-11, presentations from the meeting streamed live on...
Find it here: The 26th ESTS Meeting in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Don’t miss the 2018 Meeting of the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons! Educational sessions from the meeting can also be...
Thank you for virtually attending the 4th International VATS Symposium on CTSNet! The live stream has concluded, but the conference converage remains available below. Recordings of individual presentations will also...
Introduction “Double sleeve” (vascular and bronchial) lobectomy is a challenging and complex procedure, but a reasonable alternative to pneumonectomy in patients with centrally located tumors involving the pulmonary artery and...
Introduction Major vascular injuries of pulmonary artery branches and pulmonary veins during anatomic thoracoscopic pulmonary resection for lung cancer have been widely described and reported in the literature, as well...
The authors present the case of a 69-year-old woman who was admitted to their division with a diagnosis of adenocarcinoma of the upper lobe of the right lung. The preoperative...
Figure 1: Preoperative CT scan In this case, the preoperative CT demonstrated a 6 cm central tumor crossing the oblique fissure between the upper and lower lobes. The case was...
Filmed at the 2013 EACTS Annual Meeting, this roundtable discussion focuses on Video Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery (VATS), specifically VATS Lobectomy. Joel Dunning, FRCS, PhD moderates this discussion with Marco Scarci,...
A number of prosthetic materials, including GORE-TEX® and Marlex Mesh sandwiched with methylmethacrylate cement, have been described to restore the rigid chest wall contour. We discuss the role of a...








