Lung - Cancer
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 lobe, while sparing the basilar...
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...
Spread through air spaces (STAS) is a recently identified marker that predicts worse outcomes in patients with lung cancer and is postulated to be one of the reasons why some...
A manuscript that wil certainly be discussed in lung MDT! The thought of a RCT in these earlier stages may be already in the mind of the sponsors… The authors...
This paper looked at the immunotherapy agent Durvalumab used in the perioperative period for resectable NSCLC. A total of 802 patients were enrolled in the study, of which 400 received...
This video demonstrates a thoracoscopic left superior segmentectomy. The patient is a fifty-eight-year-old woman with a superior segmental FDG avid lung nodule, concerning for pulmonary malignancy. The use of indocyanine...
At the 2023 EACTS Annual Meeting, CTSNet Editor in Chief Joel Dunning and CTSNet senior editors set out to interview the most knowledgeable CT surgeons from around the world. Stay...
A retrospective cohort analysis of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery Database of 128,723 patients—who underwent pulmonary resection for non-small cell lung cancer between 2009 and 2019—identified 1,873...
This is a recorded session from the 2021 Birmingham Review Course. In this session, five expert thoracic surgeons came together to present on thoracic malignancy and its surgical solutions. In...
This is a recorded session from the 2021 Birmingham Review Course. In this session, five expert thoracic surgeons came together to present on thoracic malignancy and its surgical solutions. This...






