Mediastinum - Thymus

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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...

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SCTS 2026 | Surgery on the Thymus Gland

June 5, 2026 | Dionisios Stavroulias…

At the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland Annual Meeting, leading surgeons presented on surgery on the thymus gland. Dr. Rebecca Duerden, a consultant thoracic radiologist at...

JANS Article

MARS2: Decortication Plus Chemotherapy Associated with Worse Outcomes for Resectable Mesothelioma

September 15, 2023 | Javeria Tariq

Should we consider mesothelioma patients surgical candidates for resection? Are we actually doing more harm than good? During the presidential plenary of the IASLC World Conference 2023 on Lung Cancer,...

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Robotic Thymectomy for B3 Thymoma Infiltrating the Left Phrenic Nerve

May 25, 2023 | Alessandra Lenzini…

Robotic surgery is characterized by a progressive enhancement of its application in the thoracic field, notably regarding the management of mediastinal lesions. The most common robotic mediastinal procedure reported in...

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Subxiphoid Uniportal Nonintubated Thymectomy

May 8, 2019 | Giuseppe Aresu…

The authors present a thymectomy that was performed for a 49-year-old woman with a history of breast carcinoma who had a positron emission tomography–positive lesion at the level of the...

JANS Article

Comparison of Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Followed by Surgery to Upfront Surgery for Thymic Malignancy

February 6, 2019 | Claire Vernon

Park and colleagues evaluated the effect of neoadjuvant chemotherapy for thymic cancers, comparing postoperative outcomes and long-term survival between 102 matched pairs of patients who underwent either upfront resection or...

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Thymoma Resection Using Subxiphoid Uniportal Approach

January 14, 2019 | Samer Al Sawalhi

There are different types of anterior mediastinal tumors, such as thymoma, germ cell tumors, ectopic parathyroid tumors, and lymphoid tumors. Completeness of tumor resection has been considered the most important...

JANS Article

Watch Live-in-a-Box Microlobectomy and Microthymectomy Surgical Videos Performed in Bologna, Italy

October 16, 2018 | Joel DunningGold ContributorSilver Commentor

Click on the link below and register for free to gain access to two operations that were performed live in Bologna, Italy, on October 1st, 2018. https://www.microlobectomy.live/ The first video...

JANS Article

Pathologists Face Their “Deep Blue” Moment

December 13, 2017 | Mark FergusonBronze Contributor

As many will recall, world chess champion Garry Kasparov was defeated by IBM’s Deep Blue computer in 1997. Now machine-learning algorithms have bested trained pathologists in differentiating between benign and...

JANS Article

Is Thymectomy for Nonthymomatous Myasthenia Gravis Now the Standard of Care?

August 22, 2017 | Joel DunningGold ContributorSilver Commentor

This is an expert summary of the evidence for thymectomy in nonthymomatous myasthenia gravis, titled Thymectomy and myasthenia gravis: A history of surgical passion and scientific excellence. It really suggests...

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Minimally Invasive Thymectomy for a Large Thymoma With Subxyphoid Extraction

March 28, 2017 | M. Blair MarshallBronze Contributor

This video demonstrates a minimally invasive resection of a large thymoma in a morbidly obese patient. The utility of cardiac MR in operative planning, intra-thoracic CO2, angled cameras, and subxyphoid...

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Subxyphoid Thymectomy and Resection of Lung Lesion

March 10, 2017 | Firas Abu-akar…

This video shows a thymectomy for a thymic cyst and a wedge resection of a nodule in the right upper lobe. A subxyphoid uniportal VATS approach was used.

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