Robotic Thoracic Surgery
This video demonstrates the case of a 51-year-old female patient with a history of smoking who presented with progressive dyspnea, hemoptysis, and status alteration. Computed tomography (CT) of the chest showed a proximal left endobronchial...
This video demonstrates the case of a 51-year-old female patient with a history of smoking who presented with progressive dyspnea, hemoptysis, and status alteration. Computed tomography (CT) of the chest...
Treating patients with both gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and severe obesity can be challenging. Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy alone can exacerbate GERD symptoms and can induce GERD in asymptomatic patients (1)....
This article explores the pathways for and challenges and implications of integrating artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled humanoid robotic systems, or embodied AI, into operating rooms (ORs). While AI is being integrated...
This video completes a day of excellent presentations by leading surgeons exploring advanced minimally invasive techniques including congenital ventricular septal defect (VSD) surgery, endoscopic transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) explantation,...
The aim of this study was to demonstrate the ability of the Versius Surgical System to successfully and safely complete a range of thoracic procedures aligned with phase 2a of...
A sixty-five-year-old woman developed double vision and the investigation she underwent revealed an 11 cm thymoma. Subsequently, she had a median sternotomy and thymectomy, but the left phrenic nerve was...
Endobronchial carcinoid tumors require bronchoplasty, which can control the resection margins and subsequent postobstruction secretions and potential infection focus. For the classical open thoracotomy cases, bronchoplasty is performed with classical...
At the 2024 ESTS Conference in Barcelona, Spain, Editor in Chief Joel Dunning interviewed some of the most knowledgeable thoracic surgeons from around the world to highlight the fascinating work...
This video presents a robotic diaphragm plication procedure using the Versius robotic surgical system. The patient is a fifty-eight-year-old man with a history of mitral valve regurgitation who underwent mitral...
The patient is a sixty-two-year-old man who was in a motor vehicle collision that caused a thoracic spinal fracture and a refractory thoracic duct leak. The patient was initially managed...
At the 2024 STS 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...
This video is part of CTSNet’s 2023 Innovation Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the winning videos. This video presents the case of a fifty-six-year-old woman with...








