Lung - Basic Science

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CT Findings Maintains the Predictive Performance of an Existing Radiograph-Based Donor Lung Acceptability Score

September 17, 2026 | Akshay PatelSilver Contributor

This study assessed whether chest computed tomography (CT) findings improve the validated Lung Donor (LUNDON) score for predicting acceptance of brain-dead donor lungs. Among 2,454 donors who underwent CT, emphysema, pulmonary oedema, and traumatic lung...

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The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 175: Oral Board AI Simulator

September 24, 2026 | Joel DunningGold ContributorSilver Commentor…

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Traves Crabtree, Professor and Chair of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Medical Director of the Surgical Skills Laboratory...

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CT Findings Maintains the Predictive Performance of an Existing Radiograph-Based Donor Lung Acceptability Score

September 17, 2026 | Akshay PatelSilver Contributor

This study assessed whether chest computed tomography (CT) findings improve the validated Lung Donor (LUNDON) score for predicting acceptance of brain-dead donor lungs. Among 2,454 donors who underwent CT, emphysema,...

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Cystic Fibrosis

November 22, 2023 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold ContributorGold Commentor

The value for the surgical team is to be found in the systematic approach and especially the candid discussion on benefits of pulmonary transplantation, with the frank statement that may...

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Osimertinib with or without Chemotherapy in EGFR-Mutated Advanced NSCLC

November 10, 2023 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold ContributorGold Commentor

A manuscript that wil certainly be discussed in lung MDT! The thought of a RCT in these earlier stages may be already in the mind of the sponsors… The authors...

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Aerogenous Metastases: A Potential Game Changer in the Diagnosis and Management of Primary Lung Adenocarcinoma

December 10, 2014 | Marcelo JimenezBronze Contributor

This interesting article summarizes the evidence from clinical, radiologic and pathologic investigations that lung cancer, specifically adenocarcinoma, may metastasize through the airways, defined as discontinuous spread of cancer cells from...

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The centenary (2015) of the transfer factor for carbon monoxide (TLCO): Marie Krogh’s legacy

December 2, 2014 | Mark FergusonGold Contributor

This is an interesting historical vignette describing the discovery of transfer factor (TLCO, DLCO) and its subsequent importance in pulmonary physiology and cardiorthoracic risk assessment.

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Transcriptomic Architecture of the Adjacent Airway Field Cancerization in Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer

April 14, 2014 | Marcelo JimenezBronze Contributor

In this promising investigation, authors have found changes associated with airway cancerization in large airways in lung cancer patients, while these changes are absent in cancer-free smokers. And in addition,...

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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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Wedge Resection of Solitary Pulmonary Nodules Through Uniportal VATS

February 8, 2012 | Gaetano Rocco

Patient Selection Patients with lung lesions located in the outer third of the lung are suitable candidates for uniportal VATS resection. When used for the diagnosis of interstitial lung diseases...

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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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Postero-Lateral (Shaw-Paulson) Approach to Pancoast Tumor

January 17, 2011 | Federico Rea…

In 1932, the radiologist Henry Pancoast first described a superior pulmonary sulcus tumor (SST) as a carcinoma (of uncertain origin) developing in the apex of the chest. Patient Selection In...

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Thoracoscopic Pericardial Window

August 30, 2010 | Christopher Komanapalli…

Hemodynamically stable patients with an undiagnosed pericardial effusion are well suited for a thoracoscopic window. When pericardial, pleural, or pulmonary pathology co-exist and require diagnosis or therapy, a thoracoscopic approach...

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