Lung & Mediastinal

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Left Uniportal VATS Left Upper Lobe Trisegmentectomy (Lingula Sparing): Showcasing the Mediastinal Lingular Artery Variant

March 5, 2026 | Muhammad Kuthubuddeen…

This video is part of CTSNet’s 2025 Resident Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the winning videos. This video features a left uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) left upper lobe trisegmentectomy, also...

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Robot-Assisted Left Pneumonectomy for Post-Chemoimmunotherapy Proximal Adenocarcinoma

August 13, 2026 | Jean-Marc Baste

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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...

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Robotic-Assisted Resection of a Giant Anterior Mediastinal Lipoma

August 10, 2026 | Marissa Matto…

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...

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Management of SVC Injury During Right VATS Thymectomy for Myasthenia Gravis

August 5, 2026 | Jakraphan Yu…

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...

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Left VATS Pneumonectomy

July 29, 2026 | Sergio Nicola Forti Parri…

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...

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RATS Resection of an Azygos Vein Aneurysm

November 8, 2021 | Rune Eggum…

A female patient in her thirties was referred to our clinic when an MRI for neck pain revealed an upper right sided mediastinal mass that proved to be an azygos...

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Complex Robotic-Assisted Right Lower Lobe Basilar Segmentectomy in the Setting of Prior Laryngectomy

October 28, 2021 | Abbas Abbas…

Introduction Operating in a post-surgical field has inherent technical challenges. Often, tissue preservation is important because prior excision can leave the remaining anatomy limited. In select cases, the enhanced abilities...

Podcast

CTSNet To Go Podcast: Lung Cancer Screening – Health Care Disparities

October 22, 2021 | Virginia Litle…

In this CTSNet To Go podcast, we share the archived version of the webinar that concluded the Guest Editor Series, “Lung Cancer Screening – Health Care Disparities.” The panelists discuss...

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Lung Cancer Screening – Health Care Disparities: Archived Webinar

October 22, 2021 | Virginia Litle…

This is the archived version of the webinar that concluded the Guest Editor Series, “Lung Cancer Screening – Health Care Disparities.” The panelists discuss the various videos contributed to the...

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Healthcare Disparities in the Treatment of Advanced Lung Cancer

October 21, 2021 | Gita Mody

This CTSNet virtual Roundtable invites experts from the Multidisciplinary Thoracic Oncology Program of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to discuss health care disparities in the treatment of...

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Lung Cancer Screening: Challenges for Vulnerable Rural Populations

October 18, 2021 | Rian Hasson Charles

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the United States, and it is estimated that smoking is the cause in approximately 80-90% of cases. Traditionally, tobacco prevention...

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Health Care Disparities in Lung Cancer

October 15, 2021 | Azante Griffith…

In the United States, lung cancer is the second most common cancer and the leading cause of cancer mortality. Among those diagnosed, African American and black men have both the...

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Health Care Disparities in Lung Cancer Screening

October 14, 2021 | Kei Suzuki

Health care disparities affect cancer screening (1). While lung cancer screening improves rates of cancer-specific mortality and is recommended for high-risk patients (2), barriers to screening still exist. First, the...