Esophagus
Friday, August 28, 2026 – Saturday, August 29, 2026 @ 7:00 am – 11:00 am – Thoracic Surgery Symposium: Malignant Esophagogastric Diseases August 28-29 | UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas | Virtual Option Available...
This video completes a day of excellent presentations by leading surgeons exploring advanced minimally invasive techniques including congenital ventricular septal defect (VSD) surgery, endoscopic transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) explantation,...
Friday, August 28, 2026 – Saturday, August 29, 2026 @ 7:00 am – 11:00 am – Thoracic Surgery Symposium: Malignant Esophagogastric Diseases August 28-29 | UT Southwestern Medical Center in...
This study examines the relationship between public interest in cardiothoracic surgical conditions and corresponding research output during a 21-year period (2004–2024). Public interest was assessed using Google Trends data and...
This clinical video demonstrates the preservation of a replaced left hepatic artery during the creation of a gastric conduit in a robotic-assisted minimally invasive esophagectomy (RAMIE) for post-neoadjuvant esophageal adenocarcinoma....
Objective: The authors present a challenging case of emergency esophagectomy in an 80-year-old female with locally advanced (T4) esophageal squamous cell carcinoma complicated by massive hematemesis. Methods: An 80-year-old female...
The patient was a 51-year-old female who presented with shortness of breath, low appetite, weight loss, and thoracic discomfort for a year. A CT scan of the thorax revealed an...
The patient was a 68-year-old male with a history of type 3 paraesophageal hernia (PEH) recurrence post receiving a Nissen fundoplication and an attempted robotic repair one year prior. The...
The Patient The patient was a seventy-three-year-old man with known epiphrenic diverticula for 13 years. He presented with worsening dysphagia to solid foods, nocturnal coughing, and regurgitation. His relevant past...
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. CTSNet...
In this video, the authors present their technique with modifications to the peroral endoscopic myotomy for Zenker’s diverticulum (Z-POEM). They believe this leads to increased effectiveness, safety, and durability of...
The patient is a sixty-two-year-old male with notable past medical history of GERD who was diagnosed with T3N1 esophageal adenocarcinoma during an endoscopy for dysphagia. Endoscopic evaluation demonstrated gross changes...
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...








