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This video demonstrates the third redo slide tracheoplasty and esophagoplasty in a fifteen-month-old following button battery ingestion on VA-ECMO.
August 1, 2019
Filmed at the 2019 STS Annual Meeting in San Diego, California, Mara Antonoff of the MD Anderson Cancer Center moderates a discussion on how immunotherapy is changing the landscape of surgical lung cancer care.
July 29, 2019
Nonintubated tracheal resection is a feasible procedure, on selected patients, in high volume and experience centers. However, more evidence is needed in order to prove its benefits, outcomes, and limitations.
July 25, 2019
In this Giants of Cardiothoracic Surgery interview, Vaibhav Gupta speaks with Gail Darling of the University of Toronto, Canada, about esophageal surgery as well as esophageal cancer research and thoracic surgery training.
July 22, 2019
This video demonstrates a robotic right lower and middle bilobectomy.
July 17, 2019
This is a video of a middle lobectomy, but the surgeon got into considerable bleeding difficulty that required the whole team to work together to get the patient onto cardiopulmonary bypass.
July 15, 2019
This video demonstrates a right upper lobectomy enhanced by thoracic LigaSure and Medtronic Signia.
July 11, 2019
Filmed at the 2019 STS Annual Meeting in San Diego, California, Mara Antonoff of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center moderates a discussion on building a practice early in one's career.
July 10, 2019
This video demonstrates a lingula-sparing microlobectomy performed for primary pulmonary malignancy.
July 8, 2019
This video demonstrates the common pitfalls of robot-assisted esophagectomy and presents tips and techniques to performing the Ivor Lewis and McKeown procedures.
July 2, 2019
The author discusses how nontechnical skills and forming a shared mental model for VATS lobectomy teams enhances performance.