Lung & Mediastinal
This video is part of CTSNet’s 2025 Resident Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the winning videos. Recent trials, including CALGB and JCOG0802, have established the noninferiority of sublobar resection compared to...
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...
Watch the June 18 recording of the ISMICS 2022 Thoracic Masters Session 3A: My Favorite Case. Topics discussed include robotic-assisted VATS apical segmentectomy with NIR imaging, UVATS basal segmentectomy for...
A segmentectomy is typically defined as a sublobar anatomic resection containing a segment—or a group of segments—by means of an individual approach to the artery, vein, and bronchus. This video...
Urgent pneumonectomy for benign disease is rare but highly morbid, with a perioperative mortality approaching 50 percent. Late postpneumonectomy empyema (PPE) with bronchopleural fistula (BPF) poses a significant therapeutic challenge...
The patient featured in this video is a seventy-seven-year-old asymptomatic woman with a history of hypertension who underwent computed tomography (CT) for a medical check. The CT revealed two peripheral...
Radical thymectomy is the traditional surgical management of thymomas. With the advancement of technology, thymomectomy via a minimally invasive approach is gaining popularity, although evidence supporting comparable oncological outcomes remains...
This video demonstrates the steps of iliac vessel cannulation that the authors use for redo pediatric cardiac surgery. The draping gives provides access to bilateral Iliac vessels and to the...
The patient was a six-month-old, 7.6 kg male with an antenatal diagnosis of dexto-transposition of the great arteries (d-TGA), large perimembranous ventricular septal defect (VSD) with outlet extension, a bicuspid...
A sixty-three-year-old male patient was newly diagnosed with intralobar bronchopulmonary sequestration. It was found in the right lower lobe after a diagnosis of COVID-19 prompted a CT scan of the...






