Mediastinum - Thymus
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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.
...The webinar will be presented by one of the UK’s most senior general thoracic surgeons, Mr. Pala B. Rajesh, and will entail a one-hour interactive session on “everything you need...
In a roundtable filmed at the 2016 STS Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, a group of expert discuss innovations in surgery for thymoma. Leanne Harling of Imperial College, London, UK,...
This systematic review of the literature evaluated reported outcomes of myasthenia gravis in patients with and without thymectomy. Among over 10,000 patients evenly divided between thymectomy and medication alone, the...
A small international prospective randomized trial of extended thymectomy with steroids vs steroids for 126 with class II to IV myasthenia gravis. The selection criteria and powering were altered mid-trial....
“I think one of the critical aspects of switching to a minimally invasive approach is really understanding the anatomy exquisitely from the angle you are viewing it,” M. Blair Marshall...
This systematic review assessed outcomes of surgery for thymomas treated with open vs minimally invasive approaches. The vast majority of tumors were Masaoka I and II. Minimally invasive approaches were...
This video demonstrates an extended thymectomy through a subxiphoid port in a 51-year-old female patient, who presented with a 2.5 cm thymoma and myasthenia gravis. A 3.5 cm incision was...





