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CTSNet recently partnered with Women in Thoracic Surgery (WTS) and the European Society of Thoracic Surgery (ESTS) Women in General Thoracic Surgery (WGTS) Committee to host the second annual three-part webinar series, “Women in Cardiothoracic...
Objective The authors present a video-assisted thoracoscopic surgical (VATS) technique for diaphragmatic plication due to phrenic nerve paralysis. The primary goal of this procedure is to decrease abdominal compression over...
Objective The authors’ uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic pneumonectomy approach focuses on controlling the main pulmonary artery (MPA) first, to decrease lung congestion. Performing the most difficult step first ultimately decreases the...
The authors present the case of a 65-year-old male patient who, during an episode of pneumonia, underwent a bronchoscopy that revealed a right upper lobe (RUL) endobronchial lesion. The biopsy...
A 59-year-old woman underwent an examination for amaurosis fugax. A chest CT scan revealed a 2.6 cm tumor in the apex of the left upper lung attached to the chest...
This video demonstrates a uniportal VATS middle lobe lobectomy in a 56-year-old female patient with a primary early-stage lung adenocarcinoma. After complete investigation via CT scan, PET scan, bronchoscopy, and...
This video shows a middle lobectomy performed via a uniportal approach on a 55-year-old woman who had previously undergone a right upper lobectomy.The patient underwent a right upper lobectomy for...
A 65-year-old woman presented to the authors’ clinic with right upper chest wall pain. A chest x-ray revealed a right-upper lobe mass. CT and PET/CT confirmed the presence of a...
A 54-year-old-woman presented with recent weight loss and hemoptysis. A chest CT scan revealed a left lung central tumor. Bronchoscopy confirmed an infiltrating lesion at the level of interlobar carina,...
A 52-year-old female smoker presented to the ER with pneumonia. Her chest x-ray showed consolidation of the right upper lobe (RUL). Flexible bronchoscopy revealed that the orifice of the right...









