Robotic Thoracic Surgery
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Traves Crabtree, Professor and Chair of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Medical Director of the Surgical Skills Laboratory at the Memorial Learning Center...
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...
Over the past few years, CTSNet has published valuable articles and videos on robotic-assisted thoracic surgery (RATS) from surgeons around the world. RATS is an innovative and ever-expanding technique that...
OverviewThe goal of minimally invasive surgery (MIS) is to reduce surgical trauma to patients (1–5). The latest advances in MIS, as well as the increased availability of robotic platforms, are...
Minimally invasive surgery is now 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...
Because of the recent advancement in robotic thoracic surgery, this retrospective study aimed to evaluate post-operative chronic pain in robotic versus video-assisted approaches. Although patients who undergo RATS are known...
This quick video documents the first four cases of uniportal robotic surgery taught by Diego Gonalez Rivas in the UK. Patients and surgeons at James Cook University Hospital were very...
A giant mediastinal mass has traditionally been operated on using an open approach. However, a minimally invasive approach can be done with good results. Robotic surgery has been proven...
This video presents a robotic left lateral basilar (S9) segmentectomy. The patient was a fifty-six-year-old female with a sixty-pack-per-year smoking history and a two-year history of left lower lobe nodule...
This video shows a robotic right upper lobectomy in twelve steps with a focus on technique, technical pearls, and anatomy. The patient is a sixty-four-year-old woman with a 10.5 pack-per-year...









