Lung & Mediastinal
This retrospective United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) database study evaluated the evolving strategies and outcomes of lung re-transplantation for restrictive allograft syndrome (RAS) over two decades (2005–2025), stratifying 293 patients into early (2005–2015) and...
This video demonstrates the case of a 51-year-old female patient with a history of smoking who presented with progressive dyspnea, hemoptysis, and status alteration. Computed tomography (CT) of the chest...
Mediastinal lipomas are benign, slow-growing masses that can present as large masses due to their insidious onset (1). Symptoms associated with these lipomas are generally due to mass effect, such...
The video begins with an interview featuring thoracic surgeon and CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning and Dr. Leanne Ashrafian, a cardiothoracic surgeon at Guy’s Hospital in London, United Kingdom, interviewing the...
A 69-year-old female smoker (82 pack years) was incidentally diagnosed with a left lung tumor. Imaging revealed an 18×18×10 mm lower-lobe nodule and a 24×30 mm hypermetabolic interbronchial lymph node...
A 76-year-old male was incidentally noted to have a 2 cm left upper lobe lung nodule at the interface of the lingula and anterior segment. The nodule was PET avid,...
A 37-year-old female presented with a history of Ebstein anomaly of the tricuspid valve with severe tricuspid regurgitation (TR), a severely dilated right atrium, an atrial septal defect, partial anomalous...
At the 2024 AATS Annual Meeting, CTSNet senior editors set out to interview the most knowledgeable CT surgeons from around the world. Stay tuned for more interviews from the meeting....
This week on The Beat, Editor in Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Raja Flores about VATS lobectomy. They discuss his experience and studies in VATS lobectomy and Dr. Flores’s...
The zoonotic infection known as hydatid cyst is caused by the larval stages (metacestodes) of cestode species belonging to the genus Echinococcus (1). Lung parenchyma is the most commonly affected...
Patient Selection Early surgical correction of ductal-dependent neonatal patients with an aortic coarctation (CoA) and distal arch hypoplasia have emerged as the current standard of care. To begin, the criteria...
The patient is a forty-five-year-old man with metastatic testicular cancer, who underwent four cycles of chemotherapy with a complete response. Surveillance imaging revealed a 21 x 15 x 12-centimeter mass...
This video details a thoracic surgical procedure in which a video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) right basilar segmentectomy is performed on a patient with a typical carcinoid tumor. The procedure is...











