Thoracic
This article explores the pathways for and challenges and implications of integrating artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled humanoid robotic systems, or embodied AI, into operating rooms (ORs). While AI is being integrated into every area of life...
In this insightful interview, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with CTSNet Senior Editor—Global Emily Farkas, Associate Director of Global Health in Surgery at the Indiana University School of Medicine, about...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with CTSNet Senior Editor—Global Emily Farkas, Associate Director of Global Health in Surgery at the Indiana University School of Medicine,...
This video demonstrates the case of a 51-year-old female patient with a history of smoking who presented with progressive dyspnea, hemoptysis, and status alteration. Computed tomography (CT) of the chest...
Treating patients with both gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and severe obesity can be challenging. Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy alone can exacerbate GERD symptoms and can induce GERD in asymptomatic patients (1)....
Diaphragmatic defects involving the central tendon are uncommon and may present diagnostic uncertainty, particularly when identified incidentally on imaging. Surgical management can be technically challenging due to attenuated tissue quality...
At the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland Annual Meeting, leading surgeons presented on challenges in the management of locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Dr....
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Enoch Akowuah, an academic consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at Newcastle University and South Tees NHS Foundation Trust, UK, and...
This study provides an in-depth molecular and evolutionary analysis of lung cancer progression, with a particular focus on the mechanisms driving metastatic spread. Using advanced genomic and transcriptomic approaches, the...
In this retrospective cohort of 253 patients with Marfan syndrome undergoing aortic surgery, the authors evaluated the impact of severe pectus excavatum (Haller index >3.5; n=62) vs non-severe or no...
In this video, the authors present the case of a 65-year-old female diagnosed with a central squamous cell carcinoma of the left upper lobe with nodal involvement in stations 5...
This video demonstrates a robotic left lower lobectomy using bedside stapling to improve efficiency and assist with the rapid flow of the operative procedure. Interestingly, with the Si system, this...
A gentleman in his 60s with advanced oesophageal cancer (cT4bN1M0) and extensive nodal disease developed a malignant tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF). Due to the presence of the fistula, he was not...











