Esophagus - Other

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In Global News: Sword Swallowing, Personalizing the MyStudies App, and Tiny Pediatric Pacemakers

November 16, 2018 | Claire Vernon

Patient Care and General Interest An accident during a sword swallowing trick was bad news for the performer’s esophagus. An imaging case study from Medscape walks through the echocardiography of a patient with rheumatic disease...

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Per Oral Endoscopic Myotomy: Another Tool in the Toolbox

October 14, 2019 | Aristotle Protopapas

Interesting sizeable series, and a commentary that follows, on what is effectively a thoracic example of Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES).

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Operative Management of a Rare Gastrobronchial Fistula

May 27, 2019 | Muhammad Nawaz

The development of a gastrobronchial fistula is a relatively rare occurrence. The patient in this video underwent esophagectomy for esophageal cancer and a stomach pull-up operation was performed. A few...

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Hybrid Endoscopic-Laparoscopic Transgastric Resection of Gastric Subepithelial Tumor

March 13, 2019 | Daniel Jones

Management of subepithelial prepyloric gastric masses often necessitates complex surgeries, including wedge resections or a formal distal gastrectomy. With the high rate of morbidity and mortality, minimally invasive techniques to...

JANS Article

In Global News: Sword Swallowing, Personalizing the MyStudies App, and Tiny Pediatric Pacemakers

November 16, 2018 | Claire Vernon

Article

Thoracic Portal Survey Results – Minimally Invasive Esophagectomy

November 14, 2012

For purposes of this survey, readers were asked to assume that they consulted on an otherwise healthy middle aged patient with a distal esophageal adenocarcinoma, T1bN0 by EUS. There were...

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The Novalung(R) iLA membrane ventilator: technical aspects

July 19, 2012 | Stefan Fischer…

Introduction The Novalung Interventional Lung Assist (iLA) device is a membrane ventilator that allows for oxygen and carbon dioxide gas exchange to occur by simple diffusion. It has been used...

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Thoracic Portal Survey Results – Minimally Invasive Esophagectomy

July 17, 2012

For purposes of this survey, respondents were asked to assume they had recommended surgical therapy for a 63 year old man who had been diagnosed with a distal esophageal adenocarcinoma,...

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Thoracic Portal Survey Results – Thoracic Surgeons’ Mobile Device Usage

February 12, 2012

The use of mobile devices for professional applications has increased dramatically in the past 5 years. Such devices have the ability to speed information exchange, but may also create...

Article

Thoracic Portal Survey Results – Salvage Esophagectomy

November 16, 2011

The questions related to a 63 year old man who was diagnosed with a distal esophageal adenocarcinoma 9 months prior to referral, initially staged as T3N1 via EUS, CT,...

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Thoracoscopic Resection of Esophageal Leiomyoma

October 23, 2011 | Mithran Sukumar

The video outlines the salient clinical features of esophageal leioyomyoma and their thoracoscopic management. The pertinent surgical steps are outlined to demonstrate the surgical technique that is involved in this...

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Chest Wall Invasion from Metastatic Chordoma

April 10, 2011 | Christopher Komanapalli…

Introduction Chordomas are rare, slow-growing neoplasms derived from notochord remnants which form the early spine in fetal development. Most of the notochord is replaced by spine during the first six...

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Laparoscopic Repair of Giant Paraesophageal Hernias

March 2, 2011 | Andrew Pierre…

Patient Selection Figure 1. Barium swallow demonstrating a giant paraesophageal hernia. Gastroesophageal reflux disease is extremely common in North America. The majority of these patients will have a simple type...