Lung & Mediastinal
This video is part of CTSNet’s 2025 Resident Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the winning videos. In this video, the authors demonstrate a robotic-assisted thoracoscopic resection of a secretory intrapericardial paraganglioma....
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...
Perforation of Zenker’s diverticulum is a known risk of endoscopic procedures, and surgical transcervical repair or drainage is the standard management (1). Unresolved leak may require alternate means of drainage....
Operation performed: Repair of type 1 common arterial trunk – bovine pericardial baffle (VSD patch) from inlet VSD to truncal valve and placement of 12 mm Hancock RV to PA...
The patient was a 21-year-old man with a history of worsening cough, chest pain, and increasing chest wall asymmetry during the previous six months. Imaging demonstrated a large heterogeneous mass...
In this CTSNet To Go podcast episode, Mara Antonoff moderates a roundtable on the role of metastasectomy in pulmonary metastatic disease. She is joined by Erin M. Corsini of MD...
Welcome to the sixth 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...
The authors present a case of uniportal VATS left lower lobe radical lobectomy. The patient was a 44-year-old woman with breast cancer multimodal treated. The patient’s surgical history was represented...
The author reports the case of a vats left S8 segmentectomy. In this case, they used a coil to precisely localize the small lesion. The surgery began with pleural inspection,...
With this video, the authors present the case of a 53-year-old patient with synchronous NSCLC (adenocarcinoma) in the segments 2 and 9 of the right lung. The patient had limited...













