The authors present a patient with severe pulmonary emphysema who was treated with bilateral thoracoscopic lung volume reduction surgery.
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June 24, 2017
Quite simply AMAZING !
I had no idea there were so many robotic companies out there.
This doesn't even include Titan - www.titanmedicalinc.com, or Medicaroid www.medicaroid.com
June 22, 2017
This video demonstrates a uniportal VATS left lower lobectomy to treat intralobar sequestration.
June 20, 2017
This video shows a robotic sleeve lobectomy performed on a 65-year-old male patient with a proven adenocarcinoma at the orifice of the apical segment of the right lower lobe.
June 19, 2017
This is a MUST read article on how predatory journals who only make money by charging authors are sidelining ethics and the usual standards of peer review in order to make a profit.
June 19, 2017
Chudgar and colleagues evaluated clinicopathologic variables and characteristics of treatment for 539 patients who had undergone pulmonary metastasectomy for soft-tissue sarcoma at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
June 15, 2017
Prospective observational cohort study of 106 patients undergoing repair of giant paraesphageal hernia (GPEH) with near complete follow-up at 1 year. Outcomes measured at the first postoperative visit and at one year were radiographic recurrence, patient satisfaction and GERD-HRQL score.
June 15, 2017
This videos shows a successful VATS resection of an ectopic parathyroid adenoma, which was deemed unresectable via standard approaches.
June 13, 2017
Chest trauma can present in many unique and unusual ways, but, if managed in time, patients can have an excellent prognosis. This video shows three cases of chest trauma with different modes of injury and varied presentations.
June 9, 2017
In an interview filmed at the 2016 EACTS Annual Meeting in Barcelona, Spain, CTSNet Associate Editor for Allied Health and clinical nurse specialist, Jill Ley, shares her thoughts on how cardiothoracic surgery nurses at all stages of their careers can become more involved in the profession and improve patient outcomes.