Lung & Mediastinal
Ectopic parathyroid adenomas in the anterior mediastinum are rare and present significant diagnostic and surgical challenges. This video shows the case of a 49-year-old male with a history of hypertension who presented with severe hypercalcemia...
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...
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...
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...
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 present a lower lobe lung...
This video is part of CTSNet’s 2025 Resident Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the winning videos. The authors present a case of extended thymectomy with en...
In this fascinating interview, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Michael Lanuti, Director of Thoracic Oncology in the Division of Thoracic Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and an Associate...
This video is the second-place winner from CTSNet’s 2025 Resident Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the other winning videos. In this video, the authors demonstrate their...
Introduction Mucoepidermoid carcinoma of the bronchial tree is a rare pulmonary neoplasm, accounting for less than one percent of all lung malignancies (1–3). It typically arises from the submucosal glands...
In this study, the authors aimed to demonstrate their new approach to mediastinal pathologies with CO₂ insufflation, showing how they preserved both phrenic nerves. In comparison to the uniportal subxphoid...












