CTSNet published over 200 pieces of educational clinical content in 2015. As the year comes to a close, Mark Ferguson, CTSNet Co-Editor, presents his choices for the most interesting content of 2015.
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Thoracic
December 14, 2015
This video demonstrates an extended thymectomy through a subxiphoid port in a 51-year-old female patient, who presented with a 2.5 cm thymoma and myasthenia gravis.
December 10, 2015
This video shows how the use of intrathoracic CO2 insufflation opens up the cervical space to allow for excellent visualization of the superior horns.
December 8, 2015
This is an edition of the annals of Cardiothoracic Surgery dedicated to minimally invasive cardiothoracic surgery. It contains many approaches for thymectomy and mediastinal masses including VATS, uniportal VATS, subxiphoid approaches and robotic approaches.
December 8, 2015
This video shows a laparoscopic resection of a symptomatic esophageal pulsion diverticulum arising from the abdominal esophagus, in a patient with hypertensive lower esophageal sphincter (HLES).
December 1, 2015
This video demonstrates a right upper lobe microlobectomy. It illustrates the complete division of the right upper lobe vein using only the Ethicon Enseal, a bipolar energy device.
November 30, 2015
This is an interesting document adding the proposals for the next edition of lung cancer staging. the changes are going to be quite significant :
November 26, 2015
Arie Blitz of the McAllen Heart Hospital, McAllen, Texas, delivers a talk on vertical and horizontal integration in health care.
November 25, 2015
In a debate filmed at the 2015 SCTS Annual Meeting in Manchester, United Kingdom, Gilbert Massard and Gonzalo Varela offer different perspectives on how to best manage N2 disease.
November 24, 2015
This is an interesting video documenting radiotracer labelld lung nodule incision of a small 10mm right upper lobe nodule that is really quite deep