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 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)....
Uniportal robotic surgery is a relatively new technique that is being practiced in a few centers across the world. It offers the benefit of robotic surgery in a single incision....
Several studies have demonstrated the superiority of pulmonary resections coupled with bronchoplasty due to the possibility of preserving lung parenchyma in the context of a possible pneumonectomy. Likewise, the role...
The patient is a sixty-seven-year-old woman, nonsmoker, with a history of ocular myasthenia gravis and a strong family history of autoimmune disease. First, a chest CT scan was performed, which...
Recently, a subxiphoid approach has become popular in thoracic surgery because it provides more freedom of movement, as there is no limitation by the ribs, and it avoids trauma to...
Following resistance to targeted treatment, oligoprogression can occur whereby a previously controlled site or sites of metastases progress after the majority of other sites of disease stabilize on systemic therapy....
The Patient A forty-year-old woman was referred to the institution after incidental finding of a carcinoid tumor of the middle lobe bronchus. The patient was formerly planned for elective breast...
Seventeen procedures were identified by a Delphi process as feasible for simulation-based training. The top five were video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) lobectomy; VATS segmentectomy; VATS mediastinal lymph node dissection; diagnostic...
The treatment of superior sulcus tumors (Pancoast tumors) has evolved over the past seventy years. Initial treatment was resection followed by irradiation (1). Now, the established trimodal treatment popularized by...











