This article introduces a safe, easy-to-learn eight-step technique for the laparoscopic abdominal portion of a minimally invasive McKeown esophagectomy involving optimized exposure, lymph node dissection, and gastric conduit creation to reduce operative time and expand procedure adoption.
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Cancer
January 22, 2024
This video demonstrates a robotic assisted lung sparing resection of the left mainstem bronchus through a right-sided approach.
January 15, 2024
This video illustrates a step-by-step approach to a right VATS segmentectomy of segments seven and eight of the lung, offering insights into the intricate surgical procedure and anatomy.
January 11, 2024
Spread through air spaces (STAS) is a recently identified marker that predicts worse outcomes in patients with lung cancer and is postulated to be one of the reasons why some patients with early-stage lung adenocarcinoma have uncharacteristically high locoregional recurrence rates.
December 20, 2023
This video demonstrates a left lower lobectomy in a patient with a history of smoking, COPD, and ischemic cardiopathy and a pulmonary epidermoid carcinoma staged T4N0. The patient was first addressed and treated by chemo-immunotherapy before being restaffed and led to surgery.
December 13, 2023
This video demonstrates the first European use of a new cordless energy device for lung resection.
November 30, 2023
The authors of this paper note that the surgical landscape has changed in the last two years. They suggest that the multidisciplinary team should avoid a diagnostic wedge resection if segmentectomy would be the definitive and recommended operation. In that case, advanced navigation techniques should be used for diagnosis.
November 30, 2023
Although video assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) is associated with less pain than open surgery, there are still several complications that arise due to poor postoperative control with VATS.
November 30, 2023
This video presents the first reported case of VATS pulmonary segmentectomy using the ArtiSential wristed instrument.
November 20, 2023
Lung cancer screening with low-dose CT is being introduced in several European countries. The management of incidental findings, both pulmonary and extrapulmonary, is an important component of the clinical and cost effectiveness of screening programs. A multi-society European group was convened to discuss the issue.