Lung & Mediastinal

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March 23, 2026 | Alan Parr

This video is part of CTSNet’s 2025 Resident Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the winning videos. In this video, the authors present a case of a single-incision, single-port robotic right upper...

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August 4, 2022 | Ricardo Terra

A sixty-year-old woman underwent a chest computerized tomography (CT) scan during the timeframe of a flu frame and a suspected COVID-19 infection. From the CT scan, a pulmonary nodule in...

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August 4, 2022 | Diego Gonzalez RivasBronze Contributor

A segmentectomy is typically defined as a sublobar anatomic resection containing one segment or a group of segments. The treatment takes an individual approach of the artery, vein, and bronchus....

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August 3, 2022 | Dominique GossotBronze Contributor

This video addresses a segmental anatomy operation, which is a key point in segmentectomies performed via video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) or robotic-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (RATS). In this case, the anatomical...

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August 2, 2022 | Ivan Siu

Peripherally located lung nodules are becoming an increasingly common problem faced by thoracic surgeons because of the rising number of computed tomography scans being performed. With this shift, more suspicious...

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August 1, 2022 | Christopher Cao

Four decades ago, the very first patients were enrolled into the Lung Cancer Study Group. It was a randomized, controlled trial that compared lobectomy to limited resection for biopsy-proven T1N0...

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July 27, 2022 | Davide Tosi

Robotic-assisted thoracic surgery (RATS) is rapidly expanding, and new challenges should be continuously proposed regarding this technology. In effect, the community should further seek to understand both its strengths and...

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July 26, 2022 | Joel DunningGold ContributorSilver Commentor

This video documents the first uniportal robotic lobectomy conducted by the registrar of this video’s author. The video shows the incision, how the arms are placed in the chest, and...

Article
July 12, 2022 | Mary Hammon

With all the great video submissions we’ve received from CT surgeons around the world, it’s hard not to get excited about the future of cardiothoracic surgery! To wrap up our...