Shanda Blackmon
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Shanda Blackmon, a thoracic surgeon and Professor of Surgery, as well as the Director of the Lung Institute at Baylor College of Medicine,...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Shanda Blackmon, a thoracic surgeon and Professor of Surgery, as well as the Director of the Lung Institute...
This contemporary video demonstrates the step-by-step process of placing a pigtail catheter to treat both pneumothorax and effusion. The authors break the placement of a pigtail catheter into eight steps,...
CTSNet recently hosted the third webinar in the ESTS Women in General Thoracic Surgery Committee and the Women in Thoracic Surgery webinar series, in which experts discussed addressing inequities for...
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...
Filmed at the 2019 STS Annual Meeting in San Diego, California, Mara Antonoff of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, USA, moderates a discussion on the...
Filmed at the 2018 EACTS Annual Meeting in Milan, Italy, Shanda Blackmon of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, USA, moderates a discussion on the role of women in cardiothoracic...
Paraesophageal hernias are complex and challenging when they occur with acute symptoms, in malnourished patients, or when there is gastric ischemia. Treatment should be individualized based on each patient’s clinical...
Objectives Bronchial neuroendocrine tumors are an uncommon neoplasm of the lungs characterized by an endobronchial mass that mostly arise in the proximal airways. This video demonstrates successful management of an...
Background A 31-year-old woman who was a former ice hockey player, was in the military, and is a lifetime never-smoker presented with a medical history of asthma, migraine headaches, endometriosis,...
Objectives Esophagectomy is reserved for patients who present with failed treatment for achalasia or megaesophagus. As an alternative, the authors propose a minimally invasive technique to plicate, narrow, and straighten...
Introduction Multifocal lung cancer is an increasingly common clinical scenario, but there is a lack of high-level evidence for its optimal treatment [1]. Staging is an important first step in...
Filmed at the 2017 STS Annual Meeting in Houston, Texas, Shanda Blackmon of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, moderates a discussion on how to approach multifocal lung cancer. Dr...









