This video describes the case of a symptomatic thoracic schwannoma (40 x 37 mm in diameter) arising from the ninth left intercostal space in a patient already diagnosed with schwannomatosis.
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Thoracic
February 12, 2025
At the first annual Women in Thoracic Surgery (WTS) meeting, CTSNet had the opportunity to speak with some of the leading women in cardiothoracic surgery.
February 7, 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Vinay Badhwar, the current vice president of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS), about his groundbreaking achievement in combining robotic aortic valve replacement (AVR) and coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) through a single small incision.
February 6, 2025
This video demonstrates the successful use of a robotic approach in a young patient with recurrent pneumothorax after multiple thoracoscopic surgeries.
February 6, 2025
This study aimed to explore the impact of socioeconomic disparities on the uptake of neoadjuvant therapy in patients with locally advanced esophageal cancer. Using data from the American National Cancer Database, 19,748 patients were identified with clinical stage II-III esophageal cancer who underwent surgical resection between 2006 and 2020.
February 5, 2025
This video demonstrates a technique for repairing thoracoabdominal aneurysms extent II.
January 30, 2025
This murine model study investigated a novel combination treatment for pleural mesothelioma using intracavitary cisplatin-fibrin gel (cis-fib) and adjuvant irradiation (IR). Conducted on an orthotopic immunocompetent rat model, the study demonstrates that the combination therapy significantly delayed tumor growth compared to single treatments.
January 30, 2025
This study evaluated outcomes in lung transplantation (LTx) using lungs from donation after brain death (DBD) vs. donation after circulatory death (DCD). After analyzing 21 studies with more than 60,000 patients, researchers found that early mortality was slightly higher in the DCD group (5.5 percent vs. 4.5 percent for DBD).
January 30, 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning recaps The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) Annual Meeting in Los Angeles
January 30, 2025
This video demonstrates the case of a 17-year-old boy with an arrow injury who underwent immediate surgical exploration for a right lung injury and a rent in the right atrium.