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In this video, the authors demonstrate a redo pulmonary vein stenosis correction in a twenty-three-month-old child after an initial correction of totally anomalous pulmonary venous return in the... More
April 9, 2018
The authors present a video-assisted thoracoscopic resection of a left lower lobe multifocal lung cancer, followed by a discussion of the management of multifocal lung cancer.
April 5, 2018
Mr Sridhar Rathinam of the Glenfield Hospital in Leicester, UK, discusses the surgical treatment of emphysema.
April 2, 2018
This video demonstrates a redo diaphragm plication with cryoanalgesia for a patient who had a failed thoracotomy and diaphragm plication four years previously.
March 26, 2018
This video shows a totally thoracoscopic right basilar segmentectomy for a carcinoid tumor, with manual suturing of the bronchus.
March 22, 2018
G. Alexander Patterson from the Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, Missouri, discusses patient selection and indications for lung transplantation.
March 21, 2018
This video demonstrates a superior caval system reconstruction using a single bovine pericardial patch. The procedure was performed following a radical thymectomy for a cortical thymoma, which invaded the right and left brachiocephalic veins and the upper portion of the superior vena cava.
March 20, 2018
Find it here: The SCTS "Take on the Experts" Video Competition.
March 17, 2018
This video demonstrates an anatomic variation encountered during a uniportal VATS right lower lobectomy - the absence of right segment arterial branch six.
March 14, 2018
Filmed at the 2017 STS Annual Meeting, Joel Dunning, Dawn Jaroszewski, and Daniel Miller discuss important considerations in relation to the Nuss procedure for pectus excavatum.
March 12, 2018
This video demonstrates a robotic left lower lobe basilar segmentectomy performed with the da Vinci Xi robot, using a four-arm technique and total robotic staplers.