Chest Wall

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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...

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September 20, 2023 | Adam Hansen…

Costal margin reconstruction is a challenging technique but addresses the needs of slipping rib syndrome patients with complicating features including skeletal hypermobility disorders, multiple ipsilateral slipping ribs, rib deformities, and...

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June 13, 2023 | Maureen McKiernan…

This video presents a case of concomitant Ravitch repair and mitral valve repair in a thirteen-year-old patient with Marfan syndrome. The Patient The patient was born prematurely at twenty-five weeks....

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April 24, 2023 | Joel DunningGold ContributorSilver Commentor

This book contains contributions from patients suffering with pectus conditions in England, written after NHS England withdrew funding for this important condition. It documents the stories of forty-one patients, some...