Robotic Thoracic Surgery
This video presents the authors’ standardized technique for multiportal robotic-assisted left pneumonectomy after neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy, using a five-step hilar dissection based on the principles of the French lobectomy approach. In this setting, treatment-related inflammatory and...
Mediastinal and intrathoracic germ cell tumors are rare in the pediatric population, and extragonadal yolk sac tumors presenting as giant thoracic masses are rarer still. These tumors pose a dual...
This video presents the authors’ standardized technique for multiportal robotic-assisted left pneumonectomy after neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy, using a five-step hilar dissection based on the principles of the French lobectomy approach. In...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Bart P. van Putte, a cardiothoracic surgeon at the St. Antonius Hospital in Nieuwegein, Netherlands, and the Amsterdam University...
This retrospective validation study compared conventional hard boundary objective performance indicators (OPIs) with probabilistic expected OPIs that model uncertainty in surgical step timing. Using 1,016 da Vinci Xi robotic cases...
This video demonstrates the robotic resection of a giant superior mediastinal mass. The patient was a middle-aged male who had been referred to the authors’ clinic for evaluation of a...
At the 2026 American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) Annual Meeting, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief, Joel Dunning, a cardiothoracic surgeon at James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough, UK, engaged in a discussion...
Robotic thoracic surgery provides superior precision and enhanced ergonomics compared to video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery, primarily due to its three-dimensional visualization and wristed instruments. These advantages facilitate meticulous dissection and more...
In this video, the authors present the case of a 65-year-old female diagnosed with a central squamous cell carcinoma of the left upper lobe with nodal involvement in stations 5...
This video demonstrates a robotic left lower lobectomy using bedside stapling to improve efficiency and assist with the rapid flow of the operative procedure. Interestingly, with the Si system, this...
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...









