Lung - Cancer
This article assesses the outcomes of segmentectomy versus lobectomy in treating peripheral, early-stage lung adenocarcinoma. In a multicenter study involving 674 patients, the authors compared overall survival (OS), lung cancer-specific survival (LCSS), and disease-free survival...
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...
Surgery for cancer is known to suppress immune response and facilitate the development of metastases. In this study in mice, a scaffold designed to release agonists of innate immunity over...
This video demonstrates an anatomic variation encountered during a uniportal VATS right lower lobectomy – the absence of right segment arterial branch six.
...Patient Care Some Syrian refugee children have received surgery for congenital heart defects in Jordan, however many refugees in need of complex medical care are unable to receive such care....
Minimally invasive anatomic pulmonary segmentectomy requires intraparenchymal dissection for the exposure of the segmental vessels and bronchi. This dissection is performed bluntly during video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS), leading to increased...
Interest and access to robot thoracic surgery has increased over the last decade. This increased interest from surgeons, hospitals, and patients has led many surgeons to transition from their standard...
Patient Care The first deceased donor lung transplant in the UAE was performed at the Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi’s Heart and Vascular Institute, making the hospital the first in the...
Filmed at the 2017 STS Annual Meeting in Houston, Texas, Shanda Blackmon of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, moderates a discussion on how to approach multifocal lung cancer. Dr...
This video describes a video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) subcostal biportal right lower lobectomy performed as a day surgery. This abdominal extrathoracic approach is inspired by both Chinese and UK experience...






