Lung & Mediastinal
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...






