This video demonstrates an open window thoracostomy, performed for a broncopleural fistula that occurred three months after a left pneumonectomy.
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February 5, 2018
January 29, 2018
This video demonstrates the technique of transaxillary resection of the first and cervical ribs.
December 13, 2017
As many will recall, world chess champion Garry Kasparov was defeated by IBM's Deep Blue computer in 1997. Now machine-learning algorithms have bested trained pathologists in differentiating between benign and malignant changes in sentinel lymph nodes in breast cancer patients. We can expect to see increasing involvement of AI in pathology as well
December 11, 2017
This video demonstrates a mini-Ravitch operation for pectus carinatum or pectus excavatum.
October 31, 2017
This article describes a single-stage surgical repair of pectus excavatum combined with mitral valve repair and David procedure in a patient with Marfan syndrome.
August 28, 2017
This video demonstrates an infraclavicular approach to managing Paget-Schroetter Syndrome, a form of thoracic outlet obstruction.
August 2, 2017
This clinical case describes the concomitant closure of an atrial septal defect and correction of pectus excavatum in a patient with Holt-Oram Syndrome.
July 22, 2017
A Letter to the Editor of Lung Cancer that was kindly brought to our attention while still 'in press.' Our readership may find in it 'food for thought' on all matters of healthcare policies and economics, especially on maintaining morale ('reshaping prevailing nihilistic attitudes') and efficient resupply and recycling of semi-disposable surgical de
March 20, 2017
This video shows a sternal reconstruction using a fibula allograft in a 71-year-old with a sternal defect.
February 28, 2017
This video demonstrates a uniportal left upper lobe lobectomy with a partial pleurectomy.