Lung & Mediastinal
A 2.8 kg newborn with signs of congestive heart failure was admitted to the authors’ center. He was diagnosed with situs inversus totalis, dextrocardia, bilateral superior vena cava, atrial septal defect (ASD II), and biventricular...
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 third of twelve videos in a CTSNet series on Thoracic Surgical Oncology – Technical Approaches by Professor Tristan D. Yan is presented here. To see the complete list of...
Patient selection A 57-year-old woman was initially admitted to hospital four months prior with a right temporal infarct with hemorrhagic transformation, complicated by venous sinus thrombosis. She required repeated craniotomies...
This Beat episode, hosted by Joel Dunning, MD, and joined by Enoch Akowuah, MD, both of the James Cook University Hospital, UK, covers studies on mitraclip MR repair, Easy-AS, and...
The second of twelve videos in a CTSNet series on Thoracic Surgical Oncology – Technical Approaches by Professor Tristan D. Yan is presented here. To see the complete list of...
Over the last 20 years, there has been an exponential growth in technological capabilities in medicine. The quality of imaging and diagnostic tools has increased drastically. Advanced imaging and reconstruction...
The authors present the case of an 80-year-old woman with a large anterior mediastinal mass compressing her right ventricle outflow tract as an incidental finding. The resection of the mass...
Welcome to this series of CTSNet videos titled Thoracic Surgical Oncology – Technical Approaches, by Professor Tristan D. Yan. The Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Chris O’Brien Lifehouse provide the...
The authors present the case of a 63-year-old patient with an 11 mm nodule in the posterobasal segment (S10) of the left lower lobe. This grew from an initial size...












