Lung & Mediastinal

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March 11, 2026 | SAJJA NAGASRI

This video is part of CTSNet’s 2025 Resident Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the winning videos. This video demonstrates a video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) right S1 segmentectomy with 3D reconstruction planning,...

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February 21, 2022 | Julia Coughlin

The patient is a sixty-seven-year-old man diagnosed with stage IIIA moderately differentiated squamous cell carcinoma of the left upper lobe. He completed neoadjuvant chemoradiation and underwent a left thoracotomy, left...

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February 16, 2022 | Rita Costa

This video demonstrates a case of uniportal VATS segmentectomy with indocyanine green imaging. The patient was a sixty-five-year-old woman, nonsmoker, with a 12mm ground glass opacity in the apical segment...

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February 10, 2022 | Karthik Venkataramani

The penetration of uniportal VATS for lung cancer surgery has pushed surgeons to perform complex sleeve resections through the same approach. This video features a fifty-two-year-old male patient in good...

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February 9, 2022 | saiesh voppuru

This video demonstrates the technique of an open right lower sleeve lobectomy. The patient is a thirty-four-year-old male diagnosed with a typical carcinoid involving the right lower lobe bronchus. For...

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February 7, 2022 | Srinivas Kodaganur Gopinath

Surgical resection is curative for carcinoid tumors of the airway (1). Parenchymal preserving techniques such as bronchoplasty and sleeve resections have been shown to have equivalent oncological outcomes when compared...

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February 3, 2022 | Amir Sadeghi

Recently, there has been a worldwide increase in the number of segmentectomies for early-stage I primary lung cancer, intrapulmonary metastases, and benign disease limited to segmental borders and not suitable...

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February 2, 2022 | Jahnavi Kakuturu

This video demonstrates the robotic resection of an extremely apically located posterior mediastinal mass in a patient who had a prior ipsilateral thoracotomy. It highlights the fact that robotic surgery...

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January 26, 2022 | Laura Simon

This video describes the management of an extended resection for thymoma invading the superior vena cava and other essential structures, including the cavoatrial junction, right phrenic nerve, and brachiocephalic veins....