Lung & Mediastinal
CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Filipe Azenha, a thoracic surgeon at Hopital Fribourgeois (HFR), Fribourg, Switzerland and a fellow in robotic and minimally invasive surgery at Hôpital Saint Joseph, Marseille, France. They discussed...
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...
This video is part of CTSNet’s 2023 Innovation Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the winning videos. Pressurized intrathoracic aerosol chemotherapy (PITAC) is a novel and promising...
This video is part of CTSNet’s 2023 Innovation Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the winning videos. This video shows the preclinical use of the minimally invasive...
This video highlights innovative surgical strategies for repairing common arterial trunk (CAT) type III. Patients with CAT are predisposed to an early, irreversible increase in pulmonary vascular resistance. Hence, early...
This video shows the case of a forty-year-old man who presented for evaluation of several months of anterior chest wall pain. Cross sectional imaging demonstrated a calcified anterior fourth rib...
A mildly symptomatic seven-year-old male patient presented with a high partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection of the right upper and middle veins into the superior vena cava high above the...
Lung sparing bronchial sleeve resection was first described by Paulson and Shaw in 1955 (1). Resection of the left mainstem bronchus (LMSB) is challenging due to its location adjacent to...
The Patient This video presents a detailed demonstration of right VATS segmentectomy of segments 7 and 8 of the lung. The patient is a sixty-four-year-old woman who is a current...
Tension pneumomediastinum is one of the life-threatening complications of COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019). The patient in this video is a sixty-six-year-old man with complaints of cough and high-grade fever for...












