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





