Lung - Cancer
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, and Vascular Surgery Quiz League....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Sublobar resection for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer has recently been compared with lobectomy in three randomized trials. This expert review summarizes and compares these three landmark trials and describes...
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 role of subsegmentectomies in thoracic surgery is still questionable, and the literature is rare (1). The complete resection of subsegment vascular hilum, coupled with the secure preservation of adjacent...
This large-scale review of the Dutch Lung Cancer Audit for Surgery Database summarizes the variability in the current practice in surgical care for primary spontaneous pneumothorax. A total of 1,851...
This study reviews 44 patients with stage IB (larger than 4 cm) to IIIA non-small cell lung cancer who were treated on sequential platform arms of the NEOSTAR trial. Twenty-two...
This video illustrates a robotic assisted right apical S1 lung anatomical segmentectomy and radical lymphadenectomy for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) performed with the DaVinci Xi surgical system. The video...
This video presents the case of a rare complication of microwave ablation (MWA) in a thirty-three-year-old woman with lung metastases from colon cancer. The patient has a medical history of...




