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Thoracic
August 3, 2018
Engelhardt and colleagues reviewed cases of mediastinal sarcoma in the US National Cancer Database from 2004 to 2012. Overall survival at five years was poor, at only 14.8%, and just under half of patients underwent surgical resection.
August 3, 2018
The authors debate how much information should be included in the informed consent, and they use the case of resistant Mycobacterium chimaera found in the LivaNova PLC Stockert 3T heater-cooler system as a case-in-point.
August 2, 2018
Mohammed Munavvar of Lancashire Teaching Hospitals in Preston, UK, discusses endobronchial therapies for emphysema.
August 1, 2018
This video demonstrates an apparent failure of indocyanine green for determination of the intersegmental plane; is it wrong or correct?
July 27, 2018
A useful editorial debating current issues on the classification of mesothelioma.
July 26, 2018
Barili and colleagues discuss the importance of identifying heterogeneity in meta-analyses and the use of a random-effects or fixed-effects model to account for differences between or within studies. The authors review the assumptions and components of these models, discussing appropriate applications for each of them.
July 23, 2018
This video demonstrates right and left pneumonectomies, each performed via a uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic approach.
July 19, 2018
Filmed at the 2018 STS Annual Meeting in Ft Lauderdale, FL, Joel Dunning of the James Cook University Hospital in London, UK, interviews Raja Flores of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, USA, about surgical treatment for mesothelioma and lung cancer.
July 18, 2018
This video demonstrates a new method for total endotracheal repair of a tracheal laceration in a woman with heart failure who also needed emergency intubation.