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The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 167: Insights on Robotic Cardiac Surgery Adoption and Training 

July 30, 2026 | Joel DunningGold ContributorSilver Commentor…

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Ahmed Ghazy, Head of Minimally Invasive Surgery at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany, about robotic cardiac surgery adoption and training. Dr. Ghazy...

A group of doctors and assistants around an operating table in an operating room.
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Off-Pump Superior Vena Cava Reconstruction With Mediastinal Mass Excision for SVC Syndrome

July 21, 2026 | Pramod Reddy Kandakure

This video highlights the case of a 55-year-old female who presented with facial swelling, breathlessness -NYHA class 3 and cough for 15 days. She had a known case of hypertension...

JANS Article

Osimertinib with or without Chemotherapy in EGFR-Mutated Advanced NSCLC

November 10, 2023 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

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...

JANS Article

Preoperative Prognostic Factors for 5-Year Survival Following Pulmonary Metastasectomy from Colorectal Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

May 4, 2023 | Cameron LindSilver Contributor

A systematic review of prognostic factors for five-year survival after pulmonary metastasectomy (PM) from colorectal cancer (CRC) identified 11 of 77 preoperative factors as having statistically significant positive effects. These...

JANS Article

Pulmonary Metastasectomy Versus Continued Active Monitoring in Colorectal Cancer (PulMiCC): A Multicentre Randomized Clinical Trial

December 18, 2019 | Marco NardiniBronze Contributor

The PulMiCC is a randomized clinical trial that tried to build more evidence for performing pulmonary metastasectomy in patients affected by advanced colorectal cancer and previously treated with curative intent....

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Uniportal VATS Fissureless Resection of the Anterior Segment of the Right Upper Lobe

May 23, 2018 | Davor Stamenovic

A 79-year-old female patient was admitted to the author’s clinic for the treatment of a solitary tumorous formation, which appeared to be a metachronous metastatic tumor of a colon carcinoma...

JANS Article

Solitary Pulmonary Lesion in Patients With History of Malignancy: Primary Lung Cancer or Metastatic Cancer?

April 13, 2018 | Mark FergusonBronze Contributor

How to manage solitary pulmonary nodules appearing after treatment of a prior malignancy remains a clinical challenge. The authors found that such patients most often had intrapulmonary metastases and less...

JANS Article

Pulmonary metastasectomy with therapeutic intent for soft-tissue sarcoma

June 19, 2017 | Claire Vernon

Chudgar and colleagues evaluated clinicopathologic variables and characteristics of treatment for 539 patients who had undergone pulmonary metastasectomy for soft-tissue sarcoma at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. They report...

JANS Article

Identification of Independent Primary Tumors and Intrapulmonary Metastases Using DNA Rearrangements in Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer

November 11, 2014 | Mark FergusonBronze Contributor

Differentiating a primary lung cancer from an intrapulmonary metastasis can be challenging. The authors developed a lineage test using whole genome amplification and next-generation sequencing to identify breakpoints in known...

JANS Article

Phase II Multicenter Clinical Trial of Pulmonary Metastasectomy and Isolated Lung Perfusion with Melphalan in Patients with Resectable Lung Metastases

September 25, 2014 | Mark FergusonBronze Contributor

This phase II trial evaluated outcomes of isolated lung perfusion with Melphalan and complete surgical resection for pulmonary metastases from colorectal cancer or sarcoma in 50 pts. Surgical mortality was...

JANS Article

A large series of surgical patients with pulmonary metastases of colorectal carcinoma: a prospective multicentre Spanish study

March 27, 2014 | Joel DunningGold ContributorSilver Commentor

A prospective multicentre study analysed 532 patients with a first surgical procedure for pulmonary metastases of colorectal carcinoma. Complications arose in 16%, reoperations were necessary in 1% and mortality was...

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