Lung & Mediastinal
In this episode of The Atrium, host Dr. Alice Copperwheat speaks with Professor Eric Lim, Professor of Thoracic Surgery at Imperial College London and Consultant Thoracic Surgeon at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London, UK,...
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 shows a uniportal robotic right lower lobectomy. The surgeons used uniportal robotic surgery, which represents a fusion of the advantages of uniportal VATS and robotic surgery, including wristed...
When Dr. Dominique Gossot embarked on his program in segmentectomy ten years ago, he found that despite his extensive experience in thoracic surgery, his knowledge of pulmonary anatomy was lacking....
Low-dose CT chest screening for patients at high risk for lung cancer has increased the detection of small peripheral nodules (1), but traditional bronchoscopy limits the ability to biopsy these...
Professor Nasser Altorki and his colleagues recently released the results of the landmark thoracic surgery trial, CALGB 140503. The randomized trial studied the different methods of thoracic surgery and how...
CTSNet Guest Editor Alan Sihoe, MBBChir, FRCSEd, FCSHK, FHKAM, discusses his series, “Segmentectomy for Lung Cancer” alongside four other esteemed thoracic surgery colleagues. Serving as webinar moderator, Dr. Sihoe invited...
This video displays a uniportal robotic-assisted thoracic surgery (URATS) left upper sleeve lobectomy for a carcinoid tumor (live surgery from Brasilia, Brazil, on July 14, 2022). The tumor was in...
Anatomic lung resection is the gold standard procedure for the treatment of primary non-small cell lung cancer (1). The division of the interlobar fissure may represent a critical step when...
The use of elective segmentectomy for medically fit patients has been a source of controversy for the past forty years. The 1995 Lung Cancer Study Group’s (LCSG) randomized trial solidified...





