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Watch Yolonda Colson and Jennifer Romano lead a recent webinar including discussions on leadership from Jessica Donington, Nuria Novia, and more.
April 30, 2015
In this interview with Joel Dunning, Henrik Hansen discusses his 15 years of experience performing VATS lobectomies, and reflects on the current status of the approach.
April 28, 2015
This video demonstrates the technical aspects of a full thickness laparoscopic intra-gastric resection of a symptomatic leiomyoma at the level of the gastro-esophageal junction.
April 21, 2015
This video presents a single-port VATS right upper lobectomy for stage Ia NSCLC in an 81-year-old patient.
April 16, 2015
In this video, William Baumgartner, Executive Director of the American Board of Thoracic Surgery (ABTS), shares an update on ABTS activities.
April 15, 2015
The authors present the case of a 36-year-old female with a past medical history of myasthenia gravis not responding to medication. A thymectomy was planned via a left mini-thoracotomy approach.
April 13, 2015
This video demonstrates a single-incision VATS (SIVATS) superior segmentectomy of the left lower lobe in a 49-year-old male patient.
April 9, 2015
This article offers an overview of the evolution of thoracic drainage and development of the modern chest tube from ancient Greece to the present time.
April 7, 2015
In this interview, filmed at the 2015 STS Annual meeting, Joel Dunning and Shanda Blackmon discuss a variety of thoracic surgery topics.
April 6, 2015
This video demonstrates a subxiphoid single incision VATS resection of a non-MG B2 thymoma.
March 30, 2015
This video demonstrates a single incision VATS pneumonectomy and lymph node dissection in a 71-year-old male patient.

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