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 presents a right uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic (VATS) right upper lobe sleeve lobectomy performed...
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...
This is a report of a successful slide tracheobronchoplasty for right mainstem bronchial agenesis. Patient is a 2.4kg ex-36 week male (with a corrected gestational age of 39.6 weeks at...
We present the case of a 20-year-old man with a previous medical history of toxic megacolon and a viral pericarditis, which after 3 days of fever and headache, as well...
The advent of low dose CT scans for lung cancer screening has resulted in increased detection of small lung nodules concerning for malignancy. Based on the location, some of these...
I report a case of VATS middle lobectomy with en bloc sub Segmentectomy S3b. This intervention was performed for a suspicious lesion localized in the horizontal fissure and we plan...
This video describes a step-by-step demonstration of a robotic assisted sleeve lobectomy for the treatment of a typical carcinoid tumour in the right upper lobe. The tumour was visible in...
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) targeting the T-Cell programmed death receptor-1 (PD-1), showed improved survival in patients with locally advanced and metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). However, the role of...
Welcome to the final of twelve videos that compose the series “Thoracic Surgical Oncology – Technical Approaches” by Professor Tristan D. Yan. To learn more about the series and see...
A 19-year-old patient, known case of pulmonary hypoplasia, admitted to chest diseases hospital as a case of persistent pneumothorax. CT angiography was done which showed a left pulmonary artery agenesis...





