Lung - Cancer
This retrospective validation study compared conventional hard boundary objective performance indicators (OPIs) with probabilistic expected OPIs that model uncertainty in surgical step timing. Using 1,016 da Vinci Xi robotic cases across seven procedures, including 238...
This article summarizes the surgical treatment of Pope Leo XIV, who was recently diagnosed with lung adenocarcinoma. Surgeons performed a uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) lobectomy. The surgery team reported...
This video presents the authors’ standardized technique for multiportal robotic-assisted left pneumonectomy after neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy, using a five-step hilar dissection based on the principles of the French lobectomy approach. In...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Bart P. van Putte, a cardiothoracic surgeon at the St. Antonius Hospital in Nieuwegein, Netherlands, and the Amsterdam University...
This prospective European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (ESTS) Drainology Collaborative registry study examined chest-drain practice after pulmonary resection in 3,348 patients across 21 international centers, 88 percent of whom underwent...
CT-guided transthoracic needle biopsy (TNB) has allowed for increased detection of small pulmonary nodules in lung cancer patients. However, it also poses a risk of iatrogenic damage. This single-center study...
This article examines how different follow-up frequencies affect outcomes in patients with lung cancer post-resection. The study analyzed 1,916 patients and compared low-frequency (LF) and high-frequency (HF) radiological surveillance. The...
As the understanding of the natural progression of smaller peripheral lung nodules grows, the treatment options and existing paradigms continue to change. One area that is under intense study involves...
Introduction The standard of care for patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer without mediastinal lymph node invasion is up-front surgical resection, if feasible (1). This can sometimes be difficult...
At the 2024 AATS Annual Meeting, CTSNet senior editors set out to interview the most knowledgeable CT surgeons from around the world. Stay tuned for more interviews from the meeting....
This consensus paper released by the AATS puts forth 17 recommendations regarding subsolid lung nodules. These consensus statements relate to the radiological and pathological definitions of subsolid nodules, growth rate,...
This editorial summarizes the landscape that led to the founding of the Thoracic Surgical Oncology Group in 2017, in an era when, due to various oncology group reorganizations, a need...
This study evaluated the surgical and oncological results of RATS thymectomy to demonstrate the approach as technically safe with acceptable outcomes. Of 669 patients, complete thymectomy was performed in 98...




