Chest Wall
This video demonstrates a patient in their 50s who experienced shortness of breath. Twenty years ago, they underwent pectus and breast implants to hide the defect, but now they require a Nuss procedure to anatomically...
A 45-year-old man presented with a self-inflicted stab wound to the chest, near the left lower parasternal area. He was evaluated at an outside facility, where the knife was removed...
Pectus excavatum is the most common congenital chest wall deformity, and severe cases may require operative correction to improve both physiological and cosmetic outcomes. The authors present the case of...
In this video, the authors explain their technique for intrathoracic rib fixation as a treatment for rib pseudoarthrosis. They present the case of a 52-year-old female smoker with chronic obstructive...
A 9-day-old neonate weighing 2.2 kg, who had passed the neonatal screen for critical congenital heart disease, was re-admitted with heart failure symptoms, including lethargy and failure to thrive. A...
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...
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...
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....
We present a case of complex redo-reconstruction surgery for recurrent sternal non-union. Our 63yo female patient initially underwent coronary artery bypass grafting with four grafts in 2018 with utilization of...
Bronchial sleeve resection with end-to-end anastomosis is described as the most complex bronchoplasty procedure (1). Cases performed by an experienced surgeon are either done using double or triple port VATS...
Cleft Sternum (CS) contributes to only 0.15% of all chest wall malformations. It is either complete or incomplete type. Complete CS is very rare and involves non-union of the sternal...
This video describes a step-by-step demonstration of a robotic assisted sleeve lobectomy for the treatment of a typical carcinoid tumour in the right upper lobe. The tumour was visible in...
This is the case of a 53-year-old woman, nonsmoker, diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma of the left thoracic outlet. The lesion involved the subclavian vessels, first left 2 ribs, and brachial...





