Lung - Cancer; VATS
The ArtiSential wristed instruments have been developed by the South Korean company LIVSMED. Because of difficult access to robotic surgery, our thoracic team has introduced the ArtiSenital bipolar precise dissectors for anatomical lung resection (1)....
Minimally invasive surgery is routinely used for thymectomies, and techniques continue to evolve. Yang developed and studied a modified subxiphoid approach for thymectomy utilizing VATS with a sternal retractor to...
The ArtiSential wristed instruments have been developed by the South Korean company LIVSMED. Because of difficult access to robotic surgery, our thoracic team has introduced the ArtiSenital bipolar precise dissectors...
The patient is a thirty-two-year-old man who is a nonsmoker with no prior medical history living in a rural area. He consulted his pneumologist after experiencing dyspnea and hemoptysis. In...
This video demonstrates the first European use of a new cordless energy device, the Sonicision by Medtronic. It is a cordless, lightweight, ultrasonic device that can be used for a...
The institution-specific uptake of VATS for lung cancer resection in the US Veterans Affairs system was evaluated over the past 15 years. Uptake more than tripled during the study period,...
A 67-year-old woman, with multimorbidity and previously treated squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue, was admitted to the author’s clinic for the treatment of a 1.1 cm squamous cell carcinoma...
Click on the link below and register for free to gain access to two operations that were performed live in Bologna, Italy, on October 1st, 2018. https://www.microlobectomy.live/ The first video...
This Thursday night, September 6, 2018, the world’s biggest thoracic surgery unit is broadcasting a free live conference in English. Anyone is free to log in to see what they...
For high volume surgeons (defined as 20 or more annual lobectomies), the use of a robotic approach had a lower conversion to open rate and a lower complication rate, while...
Have a look at V.MED.TV ( link below), including more amazing videos from China. This is one of the best videos. It demonstrates a wonderful subsegmental resection with immaculate preoperative...
Objective The authors’ uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic pneumonectomy approach focuses on controlling the main pulmonary artery (MPA) first, to decrease lung congestion. Performing the most difficult step first ultimately decreases the...
Patient Care and General Interest A guideline for the number of opioid pills that should be prescribed after different surgeries, from cochlear implantation to coronary artery bypass grafting, is self-published...





