Ricardo Terra
This video is the second-place thoracic winner from the 2025 CTSNet Instructional Video Competition. Watch all entries from the competition, including the other winning videos. The patient was a 69-year-old woman, a former smoker, with...
Introduction Due to certain limitations of video thoracoscopy compared to robotics, such as the mobilization of forceps and 3D vision, the robotic technique has been gaining ground and showing promising...
The role of subsegmentectomies in thoracic surgery is still questionable, and the literature is rare (1). The complete resection of subsegment vascular hilum, coupled with the secure preservation of adjacent...
This video is the second-place winner from CTSNet’s 2023 Innovation Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the other winning videos. The near-infrared fluorescence imaging system is an...
CTSNet Guest Editor Alan Sihoe, MBBChir, FRCSEd, FCSHK, FHKAM, discusses his series, “Segmentectomy for Lung Cancer” alongside four other esteemed thoracic surgery colleagues. Serving as webinar moderator, Dr. Sihoe invited...
A sixty-year-old woman underwent a chest computerized tomography (CT) scan during the timeframe of a flu frame and a suspected COVID-19 infection. From the CT scan, a pulmonary nodule in...
This video demonstrates a robot-assisted upper left lobectomy as surgical treatment for a patient with a lung adenocarcinoma that had been previously submitted to immunotherapy. It was performed with the...
The authors present a video of a robotic assisted pulmonary segmentectomy of the anterior segment of the right upper lobe (S3) for a metastatic nodule. The patient was a 67-year-old...
This video demonstrates a robotic right upper lobe apical segmentectomy as surgical treatment for a lung metastasis from colorectal carcinoma, performed with the da Vinci Si platform using a three-arm...






