Thoracic Surgery

[Robotics in thoracic surgery].

The number of interventions using robot-assisted thoracic surgery (RATS) is increasing in Germany, following the previous international development. Robot-assisted surgery provides some technical advantages and can overcome existing limitations of video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS), especially in the case of extended resections, thus enabling the proportion of minimally invasive operations to ...

Comparative outcomes of robot-assisted minimally invasive versus open esophagectomy in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma: a propensity score-weighted analysis.

Robots are increasingly used in minimally invasive surgery. We evaluated the clinical benefits of robot-assisted minimally invasive esophagectomy (RAMIE) in comparison with the conventional open esophageal surgery. From 2012 to 2016, 371 patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma underwent an Ivor Lewis or McKeown procedure at our institution. Of these, 130 patients underwent laparoscopic ga...

Beyond the Artificial Intelligence Hype: What Lies Behind the Algorithms and What We Can Achieve.

The field of artificial intelligence (AI) is currently experiencing a period of extensive growth in a wide variety of fields, medicine not being the e...

Artificial Intelligence Pertaining to Cardiothoracic Imaging and Patient Care: Beyond Image Interpretation.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a broad field of computational science that includes many subsets. Today the most widely used subset in medical imagin...

Machine Learning and Deep Neural Networks: Applications in Patient and Scan Preparation, Contrast Medium, and Radiation Dose Optimization.

Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms are dependent on a high amount of robust data and the application of appropriate computational power and softw...

Commentary: Robotic Techniques in Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery (Innovations, May/June 2020).

This is a response to the papers in the May/June issue of focused on robotic techniques in cardiac and thoracic surgery. Successful robotic surgery r...

Introduction of thoracoscopic surgery for congenital pulmonary airway malformation in infants: review of 13 consecutive surgical cases.

BACKGROUND: Although complete video-assisted thoracic surgery (C-VATS) has been demonstrated to have several advantages compared with conventional tho...

Glasses-free 3D versus 2D video-assisted thoracoscopic thymectomy: a single-center short-term comparative study.

BACKGROUND: Thymectomy is widely used to for the treatment of thymomas, thymic cysts, thymic adenocarcinomas, and other thymic diseases. The developme...

Simple continuous suture to strengthen the closure of intra-muscle used in the removal of uni-portal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery thoracic drainage tube.

BACKGROUND: Uni-portal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) has become a popular type of thoracic surgery. However, improvements to the closure...

Machine Learning and Deep Neural Networks in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Imaging.

Advances in technology have always had the potential and opportunity to shape the practice of medicine, and in no medical specialty has technology bee...

Extensive Lymph Node Dissection Around the Left Laryngeal Nerve Achieved With Robot-assisted Thoracoscopic Esophagectomy.

BACKGROUND/AIM: The potential advantages of robot-assisted thoracoscopic esophagectomy (RATE) have yet to be verified. This study focused on the degre...

[A Surgical Case of AFP-Producing Gastric Cancer Discovered by Rupture of Liver Metastatic Lesion].

A 57-year-old man visited our hospital with right hypochondralgia. Abdominal contrast CT showed a 10 cm sized mass in S6-7of the liver and abdominal h...

Comparison of the perioperative outcomes in antero-superior mediastinal tumor resection performed by transcervical resection and video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery.

BACKGROUND: It remains controversial that whether transcervical resection (TC) was associated with better outcomes than video-assisted thoracoscopic s...

CardioXNet: Automated Detection for Cardiomegaly Based on Deep Learning.

In this paper, we present an automated procedure to determine the presence of cardiomegaly on chest X-ray image based on deep learning. The proposed a...

Robotic right middle lobectomy with a subxiphoid utility port.

We present the case of a 74-year-old man with Stage IIa pulmonary adenocarcinoma, for which he underwent a robotic right middle lobectomy. A 4-armed, ...

[A Paired Case Controlled Study Comparing the Short-term Outcomes of Da Vinci RATS and VATS Approach for Non-small Cell Lung Cancer].

BACKGROUND: Da Vinci Surgical System is one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century, which represents the development direction of the precise ...

Modified exposure method for gastric mobilization in robot-assisted esophagectomy.

BACKGROUND: We describe a modified method to facilitate gastric mobilization in robotic esophagectomy. Furthermore, we performed a prospective compara...

Successful treatment with afatinib for pancreatic metastasis of lung adenocarcinoma: a case report.

Metastatic lung cancer of the pancreas is rare and optimal treatment protocols have not been determined. An asymptomatic 53-year-old man with primary ...

Decreased Incidence of Postoperative Delirium in Robot-assisted Thoracoscopic Esophagectomy Compared With Open Transthoracic Esophagectomy.

BACKGROUND: Postoperative delirium (POD) is one of messy complications related with increased mortality and hospital costs. Patients undergoing esopha...

Video-assisted versus conventional thoracotomy pneumonectomy: a comparison of perioperative outcomes and short-term measures of convalescence.

BACKGROUND: Pneumonectomy is a proven treatment for lung diseases. We sought to present a comparison between video-assisted thoracic surgery pneumonec...