Chest Wall

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June 29, 2022 | M. Blair MarshallBronze Contributor…

Watch the June 18 recording of the ISMICS 2022 Thoracic Masters Session 3A: My Favorite Case. Topics discussed include robotic-assisted VATS apical segmentectomy with NIR imaging, UVATS basal segmentectomy for...

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June 27, 2022 | Oleg Orlov

The case involved a thirty-three-year-old male with a seventeen-year history of postprandial nausea, vomiting, and epigastric pain. He also suffered from chronic abdominal pain from a past motorcycle accident. The...

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June 23, 2022 | Mary HammonSilver Contributor…

It’s already halfway through the year, and surgeons across the globe have shared a huge amount of valuable cardiothoracic surgery expertise with the CTSNet community in the form of clinical...

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May 31, 2022 | Karishma Chandarana…

Urgent pneumonectomy for benign disease is rare but highly morbid, with a perioperative mortality approaching 50 percent. Late postpneumonectomy empyema (PPE) with bronchopleural fistula (BPF) poses a significant therapeutic challenge...

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May 23, 2022 | Vasily Kaleda…

Sternal dehiscence without mediastinitis is a rare and relatively benign complication after cardiac surgery. However, it may cause severe discomfort for a patient. Traditional approaches include the Robicsek technique and...

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February 21, 2022 | Julia Coughlin…

The patient is a sixty-seven-year-old man diagnosed with stage IIIA moderately differentiated squamous cell carcinoma of the left upper lobe. He completed neoadjuvant chemoradiation and underwent a left thoracotomy, left...

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January 20, 2022 | Ivan Siu…

Tracheobronchial injury is a rare occurrence in people with blunt thoracic trauma, and it is associated with significant mortality (1). The majority of patients with tracheobronchial injuries die before reaching...

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September 27, 2021 | Jalal Assouad…

The 3D custom-made implant technique fills the chest hole but does not touch the ribs in the way that orthopedic techniques such as the Nuss technique or Ravitch technique do....