Robotic Thoracic Surgery
This thoracic session features leading surgeons presenting on advancements in robotic and complex thoracic surgery at the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery Annual Scientific Meeting 2026. To begin, Desmond M. D’Souza from the...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Timur Kyashif, a cardiac resident at Jena University Hospital in Jena, Germany, about the German Society for Thoracic, Cardiac,...
This thoracic session features leading surgeons presenting on advancements in robotic and complex thoracic surgery at the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery Annual Scientific Meeting 2026. To begin,...
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)....
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...
Minimally invasive surgery is a reality in most surgical specialties. With new technological improvements, new instruments, better video support, anesthesia refinement, and robotic platforms allowing 3D view and extension of...
This is a video of an operation with the ArtiSential wristed instruments in VATS surgery. The operation featured a monopolar precise dissector. The author had not used a monopolar Maryland...
This video demonstrates a robotic diaphragm plication with a focus on technique and technical pearls. The patient is a seventy-two-year-old woman with a history of phrenic nerve paralysis secondary to...
Substernal goiter is a challenging disease. Surgical treatment is the standard based on symptoms, or for the risk of occult malignancy and the natural history of progressive enlargement (1). Resection...
This video demonstrates the first anatomical lung resection performed by the team at Southampton Hospital with the new Versius robotic system from CMR Surgical. The team has previous experience with...
The current treatment strategy for non-small cell lung cancer depends on clinical staging. Surgical resection is generally considered the treatment of choice in patients with stage I or II disease...










