General thoracic and cardiovascular surgery
Nov 7, 2023
OBJECTIVES: Since anatomical segmentectomy requires meticulous dissection of the segmental pulmonary vessels and bronchus, robot-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (RATS) has been widely adopted in recent years. We investigated the usefulness of RATS seg...
General thoracic and cardiovascular surgery
Jul 31, 2023
In the last decade, even thoracic surgery has seen an increase in the use of robotic surgical systems, and robot-assisted thoracic surgery (RATS) is considered one of the main issues. While RATS is associated with solo manipulative freedom and high-d...
General thoracic and cardiovascular surgery
Oct 30, 2022
Intraoperative water testing is essential for assessing mitral valve morphology and degree of residual mitral regurgitation during mitral valve repair. However, in some cases, evacuating intracardiac air is challenging. Herein, we report the routine ...
General thoracic and cardiovascular surgery
Jun 6, 2022
A major challenge in treating superior sulcus tumors is achieving complete surgical resection because of technical difficulties associated with the anatomical structures and approaches to the thorax. Our technique combines posterior minimally invasiv...
General thoracic and cardiovascular surgery
Jun 16, 2021
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to create the preoperative predictive model on mediastinal lymph-node metastasis based on artificial intelligence in surgically resected lung adenocarcinoma.
General thoracic and cardiovascular surgery
Jul 1, 2020
OBJECTIVE: Regarding intraoperative complications and troubles during robot-assisted thoracic surgery, few data are available especially in Japan. This study was aimed to elucidate intraoperative complications and troubles in robotic anatomical lung ...
General thoracic and cardiovascular surgery
Feb 13, 2020
OBJECTIVES: Robot-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (RATS) for primary lung cancer has been spreading rapidly in Japan. While RATS has various technical advantages over video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS), the quality of surgery from an oncologi...
General thoracic and cardiovascular surgery
Nov 30, 2015
In advanced stages, thymic tumors tend to spread locally. Distant metastatic disease is rare. We present the first report of single metastatic abdominal lymph node in a 37-year-old female patient and 5 years after an extrapleural pneumonectomy for st...
General thoracic and cardiovascular surgery
Jan 18, 2015
Endoscopic surgery employing three-dimensional (3D) video images, such as a robotic surgery, has recently become common. However, the number of opportunities to watch such actual 3D videos is still limited due to many technical difficulties associate...