VATS

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Management of SVC Injury During Right VATS Thymectomy for Myasthenia Gravis

August 5, 2026 | Jakraphan Yu…

The video begins with an interview featuring thoracic surgeon and CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning and Dr. Leanne Ashrafian, a cardiothoracic surgeon at Guy’s Hospital in London, United Kingdom, interviewing the author of this complex case...

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VATS Resection of a 10-Centimeter Mediastinal Mass With Subxiphoid Removal

September 14, 2026 | Joel DunningGold ContributorSilver Commentor

This video shows the successful removal of a 10 cm anterior mediastinal mass. Initially, a sternotomy was considered due to the significant size of the mass. However, a camera was...

Podcast

The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 168: Humanoid Robots and AI in Surgery

August 6, 2026 | Joel DunningGold ContributorSilver Commentor…

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Aamir Amin, a cardiothoracic surgery resident at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, UK, about humanoid robots and artificial...

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Management of SVC Injury During Right VATS Thymectomy for Myasthenia Gravis

August 5, 2026 | Jakraphan Yu…

The video begins with an interview featuring thoracic surgeon and CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning and Dr. Leanne Ashrafian, a cardiothoracic surgeon at Guy’s Hospital in London, United Kingdom, interviewing the...

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Left VATS Pneumonectomy

July 29, 2026 | Sergio Nicola Forti Parri…

A 69-year-old female smoker (82 pack years) was incidentally diagnosed with a left lung tumor. Imaging revealed an 18×18×10 mm lower-lobe nodule and a 24×30 mm hypermetabolic interbronchial lymph node...

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Harmonic HD–Powered Right Upper Lobectomy

April 22, 2019 | Marco NardiniBronze Contributor…

Mr Felice Granato demonstrates a thoracoscopic right upper lobectomy, which was performed for a primary pulmonary malignancy. The Harmonic HD was adopted for sealing of one of the segmental arteries...

JANS Article

Intraoperative Conversion During Video-Assisted Thoracoscopy Does Not Constitute a Treatment Failure

April 3, 2019 | Claire Vernon

Intraoperative conversion may be necessary during video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) for lung cancer. In this study on 610 patients, Fourdrain and colleagues observed that conversion during a VATS procedure was...

JANS Article

Uptake of Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Lung Resections Within the Veterans Affairs

March 16, 2019 | Mark FergusonBronze Contributor

The institution-specific uptake of VATS for lung cancer resection in the US Veterans Affairs system was evaluated over the past 15 years. Uptake more than tripled during the study period,...

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Watch the SCTS 2019 “Take on the Experts” Video Competition

March 11, 2019 | Clinton Lloyd

Find it here: The SCTS “Take on the Experts” Video Competition On Tuesday, March 12, the top four cardiac and top three thoracic videos submitted for this session of the...

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Posterior Uniportal VATS for the Posterior Segment (S2) Nonanatomical Resection Followed by Lobectomy: Major Bleeding Event

March 11, 2019 | Davor Stamenovic

A 67-year-old woman, with multimorbidity and previously treated squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue, was admitted to the author’s clinic for the treatment of a 1.1 cm squamous cell carcinoma...

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Progress and Innovation in Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery: What is the Future?

March 7, 2019 | Gaetano Rocco

Gaetano Rocco of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, USA, discusses the future of minimally invasive thoracic surgery. He proposes that improved training and educational tools for...

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Pulmonary Re-Expansion After Diaphragmatic Plication

February 14, 2019 | Veronica Manolache…

In this video, the authors present a diaphragmatic plication. Diaphragm paralysis can have a wide variety of causes such as trauma, malignant pathologies, or infectious diseases. Sometimes it can be...

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Thymoma Resection Using Subxiphoid Uniportal Approach

January 14, 2019 | Samer Al Sawalhi

There are different types of anterior mediastinal tumors, such as thymoma, germ cell tumors, ectopic parathyroid tumors, and lymphoid tumors. Completeness of tumor resection has been considered the most important...

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