Lung & Mediastinal
This video is part of CTSNet’s 2025 Resident Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the winning videos. A 38-year-old male with a history of non-seminomatous germ cell tumor (NSGCT) of the anterior...
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...
Filmed at the 2020 STS Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, Mara Antonoff of University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston moderates a roundtable on the role of...
Pulmonary segmentectomy can be an adequate oncological lung resection for early stage lung cancer and deeper metastatic lesions. In select patients, the outcomes are comparable to lobectomy. Historically, this operation...
This is a video of a non-intubated subxiphoid multiport VATS thymectomy. The patient was a 40-year-old man who was an asymptomatic chronic smoker. On incidental evaluation, HRCT thorax was suggestive...
Rapid adoption of minimally invasive surgery into clinical practice has conveyed improvements in outcomes across many surgical specialties. Robotic surgery offers additional advantages due to imbedded safety technologies, improved dexterity,...
The da Vinci Xi robot can be used in performing anatomical lung resections. The highly magnified 3D HD vision with the integrated fluorescence capability, together with the superior articulation of...
The authors describe the case of a 64-year-old man presented with disfagia, weight loss, and halitosis over the last three years. The procedure is described step by step, and the...
A 59-year-old man presented to a local hospital with fever, a nonproductive cough, and dyspnea. He tested positive for COVID-19. Prior to his progressive respiratory failure, computed tomography of the...
The lungs are a common target-organ for metastases in most of cancers. Pulmonary metastasectomy can potentially be a curative surgical option as long as selection criteria of patients are rigorously...













