Lung & Mediastinal
At the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland Annual Meeting, Dr. Laurens Ceulemans, a thoracic and transplant surgeon and Associate Professor of Surgery at UZ/KU Leuven, Belgium, delivered a presentation titled “Lung...
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...
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...
An aberrant right subclavian artery is the most common embryological abnormality of the aortic arch and is known clinically as arteria lusoria. In the case of this patient, there was...
The role of subsegmentectomies in thoracic surgery is still questionable, and the literature is rare (1). The complete resection of subsegment vascular hilum, coupled with the secure preservation of adjacent...
Endometriosis most commonly involves the pelvis. The most common extrapelvic location of endometriosis is the thorax. Thoracic endometriosis can manifest itself as pneumothorax, hemothorax, hemoptysis, pulmonary nodules, or thoracic pain,...
Background The first heart transplant in Colombia was performed in Medellín on December 1, 1985 and the first successful lung transplant in Colombia was performed on October 28, 1997 at...
The patient is a twenty-three-month-old boy with total anomalous pulmonary venous return (TAPVR), ventricular septal defect (VSD), and secundum atrial septal defect (ASD II) initially treated with a TAPVR correction...
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. Stay...
Tetralogy of Fallot with an absent pulmonary valve is physiologically distinctive from other forms of TOF due to tracheobronchial compression resulting from massive dilatation of the main pulmonary artery and...











