Sridhar Rathinam of Glenfield Hospital in Leicester, United Kingdom, discusses surgical approaches for pulmonary neuroendocrine tumors.
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Benign disease
May 6, 2019
The authors present a uniportal left videothoracoscopic procedure to remove a cystic lesion, immediately adjacent to the right ventricle, the pulmonary artery, and the pulmonary valve without any infiltration.
April 15, 2019
These reference videos describe how to perform surgical bronchoscopy, discuss how to identify normal and abnormal findings, and give a gist of how the thoracic surgeon assesses the bronchial tree.
April 9, 2019
In this video, a huge anterior and middle mediastinal cyst was removed via median sternotomy from an 80-year-old patient who had very good recovery.
March 14, 2019
Leanne Harling and Martin Elliott discuss the establishment of the UK National Tracheal Service and the evolution of tracheal surgery.
June 25, 2018
This written and video case review from Osho and colleagues centers on a 54-year-old woman who suffered smoke inhalation injury as a result of a house fire. Following prolonged intubation, mechanical ventilation, open tracheostomy tube placement, and recurrent pneumonia, the patient was diagnosed with a tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF).
June 5, 2018
Timman and colleagues assessed the functional outcomes of patients who underwent laryngotracheal resection (LTR) and reconstruction for benign laryngotracheal stenosis. Between 1996 and 2017, 119 consecutive patients underwent LTR (n = 47) or end-to-end segmented tracheal resection (n = 56).
May 8, 2018
This systematic review by Udelsman and colleagues assesses the clinical successes and setbacks of the current methods of airway replacement. Twenty-one studies, focusing primarily on the clinical translation of circumferential or near circumferential tracheal substitutes, were included in the final assessment.
December 4, 2017
These videos present techniques the authors have adopted to perform minimally invasive mediastinal surgery as an outpatient procedure.
November 16, 2016
Dirk Van Raemdonck of University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, presents an overview of mediastinal masses.