Mediastinum - Thymus
This video shows the successful removal of a 10 cm anterior mediastinal mass. Initially, a sternotomy was considered due to the significant size of the mass. However, a camera was inserted into the chest to...
This video shows the successful removal of a 10 cm anterior mediastinal mass. Initially, a sternotomy was considered due to the significant size of the mass. However, a camera was...
A 63-year-old woman presented with myasthenia crisis and ptosis, for which she was treated with immunoglobulin. Her medical history included type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM), hypertension, and hypothyroidism. A computed...
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...
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...
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...
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...







