Raja Flores
This week on The Beat, Editor in Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Raja Flores about VATS lobectomy. They discuss his experience and studies in VATS lobectomy and Dr. Flores’s technique for this procedure. He...
At the 2024 STS Annual Meeting, CTSNet Editor in Chief Joel Dunning and CTSNet senior editors set out to interview the most knowledgeable CT surgeons from around the world. Stay...
The Ivor Lewis esophagectomy has remained the procedure of choice for localized middle or lower esophageal cancer since it was first introduced in 1946 (1,2). Despite its widespread use, the...
Filmed at the 2018 STS Annual Meeting in Ft Lauderdale, FL, Joel Dunning of the James Cook University Hospital in London, UK, interviews Raja Flores of the Mount Sinai School...
Raja Flores, Professor and Chairman of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine Department of Thoracic Surgery, discusses the use of pleurectomy and decortication in the treatment of mesothelioma. This presentation...
Extrapleural pneumonectomy is a surgical resection option for the treatment of malignant pleural mesothelioma. This video shows a right-sided extrapleural pneumonectomy on a 60-year-old woman with mesothelioma. The author describes...
Patient Selection Any anterior mediastinal mass (Figures 1, 2) must be considered suspect for germ cell tumor, especially in a young male. Errors in diagnosis are not uncommon and can...
Patient Selection Figure 1: Computed tomography showing a typical right upper lobe lung lesion. surrounded by lung parenchyma suitable for VATS lobectomy VATS lobectomies are performed on patients with clinical...
The majority of patients selected for VATS mediastinal nodal dissection are patients undergoing VATS lobectomy procedures for malignancy. Patient Selection The majority of patients selected for VATS mediastinal nodal dissection...



