Lung & Mediastinal
At the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland Annual Meeting, leading surgeons presented on the management of early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Dr. Henrietta Wilson, a consultant thoracic surgeon at Barts...
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 is a recorded session from the 2021 Birmingham Review Course. In this session, five expert thoracic surgeons came together to present on thoracic malignancy and its surgical solutions. This...
This article is part of CTSNet’s Guest Editor Series, “Right Axillary Thoracotomy for Repair of a Wide Variety of Congenital Heart Defects in Infants and Children—Should This Be the New...
New techniques and technologies are constantly being developed in surgical treatment for lung cancer. These recent CTSNet videos demonstrate some of the most popular and innovative techniques, including uniportal VATS...
The patient is a sixty-seven-year-old woman, nonsmoker, with a history of ocular myasthenia gravis and a strong family history of autoimmune disease. First, a chest CT scan was performed, which...
The patient was a nine-month-old, 8.8 kg infant who was born with anomalous origin of the right pulmonary artery (RPA) from the ascending aorta. She underwent an initial median sternotomy...
This video presents the management of a complex and infrequently encountered scenario. A sixty-nine-year-old patient had a large pulmonary artery aneurysm extending from the main pulmonary artery (PA) up to...
Recently, a subxiphoid approach has become popular in thoracic surgery because it provides more freedom of movement, as there is no limitation by the ribs, and it avoids trauma to...
This video presents a case of a typical carcinoid tumor located in the distal part of bronchus intermedius. The patient is a fifty-six-year-old woman who is a nonsmoker. Her comorbidities...












