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In this extraordinary interview, Cristina Ruiz Segria, CTSNet Senior Editor—Clinical Care Providers, speaks with Dr. Tara Mastracci about social prescribing and the ramifications of social... More
December 2, 2019
The authors present a left upper lobe trisegmentectomy (S1+2+3) for a primary adenocarcinoma over a previous pneumocytoma.
November 27, 2019
The authors present the case of a 79-year-old man with early stage lung cancer in the left apicoposterior segment.
November 20, 2019
In this video, the authors demonstrate a robotic right lower lobe sleeve resection for a carcinoid tumor.
November 13, 2019
The authors report the case of a 50-year-old woman suffering from lymphoblastic leukemia, developing left upper lobe aspergilloma during aplastic chemotherapy, and presenting partial anomalous pulmonary vein connection of the left upper lobe, who submitted to pulmonary resection.
November 12, 2019
This case report describes a young woman who presented with severe respiratory distress due to a spontaneous diaphragmatic hernia that was caused by labor contractions, which was managed by the emergency surgical repair of the diaphragm.
November 7, 2019
Filmed at the 2019 EACTS Annual Meeting in Lisbon, Portugal, Jill Ley of California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco moderates a discussion on pain management strategies that include reduced or no opioid use.
November 7, 2019
Find it here: the 2019 International Thoracic Oncology Symposium live on CTSNet.
October 24, 2019
In this Giants of Cardiothoracic Surgery interview, Marco Nardini speaks with Franca Melfi of the University of Pisa in Italy about her experience with robotic thoracic surgery technology.
October 14, 2019
The authors present the first case of a solitary pulmonary nodule that was diagnosed and staged with robotic bronchoscopy and resected via robotic lobectomy by the same team.
October 9, 2019
The authors present the case of a double metal foreign body inhalation in a 4-year-old child.