Lung - Cancer
Extended sleeve lobectomy (ESL) is considered a lung-sparing alternative to pneumonectomy (PN) for centrally located non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) when standard sleeve lobectomy (SSL) is not feasible. This retrospective study analyzed 94 patients who...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Timur Kyashif, a cardiac resident at Jena University Hospital in Jena, Germany, about the German Society for Thoracic, Cardiac,...
In this noteworthy interview, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Jeffrey Velotta, Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine in San Francisco,...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Jeffrey Velotta, Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine in San...
This Society of Thoracic Surgeons Expert Consensus Documents provides updated, multidisciplinary guidance on the multimodal management of pleural mesothelioma (PM). The expert panel emphasizes that surgical resection should only be...
The patient presented with bilateral adenocarcinoma, therefore an apical and posterior segmentectomy was the procedure of choice in order to conserve pulmonary tissue and function. A variance from normal anatomy...
This video demonstrates a right upper lobectomy through a subxiphoid biportal approach. The authors use a biportal approach, divided in a 4 cm working port through a paramedian incision and...
The authors demonstrate a robotic right lower lobectomy with utilization of subxiphoid assistant port. The patient was a 73-year-old man who underwent surgery for a 35 mm lung nodule secondary...
Patient Care and General Interest Ireland’s Cabinet is expected to consider opt-out organ donation legislation this spring. A veterinarian in Colorado, USA, discusses the potential for learning about novel interventional...
Filmed at the 2018 STS Annual Meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Douglas Wood of the University of Washington in Seattle moderates a debate on the criteria that should be used...
Within a year after a diagnosis of lung cancer the suicide rate for such patients is 6 times higher than in the general population. This is among the greatest increases...
Patient Care and General Interest Surgeons at the Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi in the UAE used a metal stent for an emergency repair of a patient’s windpipe, which had been...
Paul Van Schil of Antwerp University Hospital in Belgium discusses surgical approaches for various stages of non-small cell lung cancer. This presentation was originally given during the SCTS Ionescu University...




