Lung & Mediastinal
Background In isolated pulmonary artery of ductal origin (IPADO), one or both pulmonary arteries arise from a ductus arteriosus, and it is observed in approximately 1.5 percent of patients with discontinuous pulmonary arteries (1,2). Embryologically,...
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...
Holography is a method of creating three-dimensional images called holograms. These are made by superimposing a second wavefront, usually defined as a reference beam, on the wavefront of interest. This...
This video demonstrates a technique for VATS right en bloc S3, S4, S5 segmentectomy. The primary surgeon for this operation was Mr. Soon Sing Yang, a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon. The...
A sixty-two-year-old female with a history of chronic cough and exercise intolerance initially presented for elective calcium scoring via cardiac CT. The scan showed previously undiagnosed anomalous pulmonary venous return...
As this article and video demonstrate, the superior approach for repair of supracardiac TAPVC carries several advantages, including minimal-to-no heart manipulation, ease of accessibility through the transverse pericardial sinus, and...
The patient in this case is a sixty-eight-year-old male with a background of bowel adenocarcinoma (pT3aN1a) resected in 2019. Follow-up surveillance demonstrated two suspicious, enlarging non-fluorodeoxyglucose lesions in the right...
Cervico-mediastinal tumors are commonly situated in the anterior mediastinum. However, 10 to 15 percent of them may be located in the posterior mediastinum. This video presents an unusual case of...
This article details the step-by-step procedure for a robot-assisted left upper lobectomy and mediastinal lymphadenectomy in a sixty-two-year-old male. Background The patient had a past medical history of significant tobacco...
A segmentectomy is indicated in selected patients with non-small-cell lung cancer with peripheral nodules measuring greater than 2 cm and a less than 50 percent ground-glass appearance on computed tomography...







