Lung - Cancer

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Tumour Spread Through Air Spaces Is a Determiner for Treatment of Clinical Stage I Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Thoracoscopic Segmentectomy vs Lobectomy

March 13, 2025 | Akshay PatelSilver Contributor

This study investigates the impact of tumor spread through air spaces (STAS) on surgical outcomes for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). In a retrospective analysis of 785 patients, 19.2 percent were found to have...

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Right Basilar Segmental Autologous Lung Transplantation With Carinal Reconstruction for Central Lung SCC

September 24, 2026 | Akshay PatelSilver Contributor

This case report describes a 75-year-old patient with a centrally located squamous cell carcinoma extending from the carina to the right intermediate bronchus and the superior segment of the lower...

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An STS General Thoracic Surgery Database Analysis of the Association Between LN Dissection and Chylothorax

September 24, 2026 | Akshay PatelSilver Contributor

This Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery Database analysis found that postoperative chylothorax risk increases with the extent of lymph-node dissection during pulmonary resection. Although uncommon, chylothorax was associated...

Podcast

The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 173: Uniportal Robotics in the UAE

September 10, 2026 | Joel DunningGold ContributorSilver Commentor

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Taj Mohammed Fiyaz Chowdhry, a consultant thoracic surgeon at Burjeel Specialty Hospital, Sharjah, UAE, about uniportal robotics in the...

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Tumor Mutational Burden as a Predictor of Immune-Related Adverse Events in Patients With Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Receiving Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors: A Brief Report

September 3, 2026 | Akshay PatelSilver Contributor

High tumor mutational burden (TMB) predicts not only response to immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) in advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) but also immune-related toxicity. In this single-center cohort of...

Video

Hybrid Uniportal VATS Technique for Left Upper Lobectomy With Chest Wall Resection and Reconstruction

May 14, 2018 | Firas Abu-akar…

A 60-year-old patient was diagnosed with a T3N0M0 squamous cell carcinoma. A multidisciplinary tumor board decided to perform a hybrid procedure of left upper lobectomy with resection of three involved...

Video

Robotic Right Upper Lobectomy for Stage IIIA-pN2 Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer After Induction Chemotherapy

May 9, 2018 | Monica Casiraghi…

This video showed a robotic right upper lobectomy for stage IIIA-pN2 non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) following induction chemotherapy. The patient underwent three cycles of cisplatinum-based induction chemotherapy, and then...

Video

Robotic-Assisted Left Upper Lobe Anterior (S3) Segmentectomy

May 1, 2018 | David Rice

Sublobar resection of small (<2 cm) well-differentiated lung cancers is appropriate, especially in elderly patients, and it preserves useful lung parenchyma, thereby maximizing postoperative lung function [1]. Though minimally invasive...

Video

Right Main Bronchus Sleeve Resection

April 30, 2018 | Marco NardiniBronze Contributor…

IntroductionCarcinoid is a rare lung cancer that originates from the neuroendocrine cells of the airways. Pulmonary parenchyma sparing procedures should be attempted whenever feasible. Bronchoplasty and sleeve resection are technically...

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In Global News: Improving Vein Grafts, a Suture-Based Percutaneous Mitral Device, and Donating CT Surgical Equipment

April 27, 2018 | Claire Vernon

Patient Care The Jos University Teaching Hospital in Nigeria has received a donation of surgical equipment for cardiothoracic surgery from Project CURE, which will allow the hospital to offer more...

Video

Robotic Anterior Basilar Segmentectomy

April 26, 2018 | Bernard Park

Robotic technology is being increasingly utilized for the performance of anatomic pulmonary resection. An excellent example of the technical advantages of the robotic platform over conventional minimally invasive video-assisted thoracoscopic...

Video

Robotic Right Upper Lobe Sleeve Lobectomy

April 25, 2018 | Vittorio Aprile…

Clinical Summary A 52-year-old male light smoker was under regular annual checks following a previous ocular melanoma, which was treated in 2013 with brachytherapy. During one of the follow-up visits,...

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Robotic-Assisted Left Upper Lobectomy in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer With N1 Disease

April 24, 2018 | Luis Herrera

This video demonstrates a procedure performed for a 56-year-old woman with a cT1BN1M0 stage IIB adenocarcinoma of the left upper lobe. She underwent endobronchial ultrasound for mediastinal staging, which ruled...

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