Chest Wall

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May 15, 2026 | Joel DunningGold ContributorSilver Commentor

This video presents a case of an older patient with severe pectus who had only one Nuss bar. Over four months, the bar fractured the thin sternum and migrated over it, exiting the thoracic cavity....

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July 2, 2024 | Alan ODonnellBronze Contributor

First, note that there are many accepted strategies for wound closure. The technique will vary based on the weight of the patient and complexity of the wound. Regardless of the...

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April 11, 2024 | Alan ODonnellBronze Contributor

This video presents the case of the third redo slide tracheoplasty and esophagoplasty following a button battery ingestion in a previously healthy fifteen-month-old child. The patient presented to the emergency...

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April 10, 2024 | Olugbenga Okusanya

At the 2024 STS Annual Meeting, CTSNet Editor in Chief Joel Dunning and CTSNet senior editors set out to interview the most knowledgeable CT surgeons from around the world. Stay...

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April 9, 2024 | John Sadeghi

This is the winning video in the 9th Annual Resident Video Competition. View the interview with the winner. There are three types of thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS): neurogenic (the majority...

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February 27, 2024 | Claudia Villanueva

This video demonstrates a bilateral anterior thoracotomy or clamshell thoracotomy. A clamshell thoracotomy is used primarily to treat cardiac tamponade as a potential cause of death. The goals are to...

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February 5, 2024 | Ahmed Oliemy

This video is part of CTSNet’s 2023 Innovation Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the winning videos. The patient is a forty-nine-year-old woman who had previously undergone...

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January 31, 2024 | Allen Zhu

This video shows the case of a forty-year-old man who presented for evaluation of several months of anterior chest wall pain. Cross sectional imaging demonstrated a calcified anterior fourth rib...