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VATS Segmentectomy (Ongoing)

This special series on VATS Segmentectomy is edited by Dr. Michel Gonzalez, from Service of Thoracic Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

JOVS Annual Report (2020)

Greetings from Dr. Alan Sihoe, Dr. Yupei Zhao and Editorial Office of Journal of Visualized Surgery (JOVS)!

Starting from Jan. 2020, JOVS has become a quarterly publication. With joint effort and support from our editorial board members, authors, guest editors and reviewers, JOVS published 50 articles with about 42% are Review Articles, 18% Case Reports and 14% Original Articles. Corresponding Authors were from various countries with Japan and USA among the most. According to the Google Analytics, JOVS had a steadily increasing number of pageviews and visitors (all together 89,524 worldwide and 153,225 pageviews). For more details, please see the following report.

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Advancement in the Surgical Treatment of Aortic Dissection

This special series on Advancement in the Surgical Treatment of Aortic Dissection is edited by Dr. Ibrahim Sultan, MD, from Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; and Dr. George J. Arnaoutakis, MD, from Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.

Tracheobronchoplasty (Ongoing)

This special series on Tracheobronchoplasty is co-edited by Dr. Charles T. Bakhos and Dr. Abbas E. Abbas, from Thoracic Medicine and Surgery, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Advancement in Robotic Assisted Thoracic Surgery

This special series on “Advancement in Robotic Assisted Thoracic Surgery” is edited by Dr. Jean-Marc Baste, from Surgical Department of General and Thoracic Surgery, Rouen University Hospital, Rouen, France.

Special Series Dedicated to the 36th Annual Conference of Japanese Association for Chest Surgery (JACS)

This special series dedicated to the 36th Annual Conference of Japanese Association for Chest Surgery (JACS) is edited by Dr. Meinoshin Okumura, from Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Osaka Toneyama Medical Center, Toyonaka-City, Osaka, Japan.

Penile Prosthesis Surgery

This special series on “Penile Prosthesis Surgery” is edited by Dr. Martin Gross from Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, USA; Dr. Jay Simhan from Department of Urology/Urologic Oncology, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA an Dr. Faysal A. Yafi, from Department of Urology, University of California Irvine, CA, USA.

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Letter to the Editor

Staged, hybrid approach to acute DeBakey Type I aortic dissection

Tim Smith, Robin H. Heijmen

Journal of Visualized Surgery

2021;

(20 April 2021)

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Case Report

VATS biopsy of an adult with pulmonary langerhans cell histiocytosis: case report

Kathy Jane S. Tripole, Jose Luis J. Danguilan, Jaime M. Mendoza, Rex Michael C. Santiago

Journal of Visualized Surgery

2021;

(20 April 2021)

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Case Report

Robotic radical thymothymectomy for thymomatous myasthenia gravis in the elderly: case report and mini-review

François Montagne, David Delacour, Marion Fommarty, Zied Chaari, Eloise Papet, Jean-Marc Baste

Journal of Visualized Surgery

2021;

(20 April 2021)

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Case Report

Firefly robotic lung volume reduction surgery: case report

Claudio Caviezel, Didier Schneiter, Olivia Lauk, Isabelle Opitz

Journal of Visualized Surgery

2021;

(20 April 2021)

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Review Article

Fluorescence-guided thoracic surgery

Shota Nakamura, Masaki Goto, Toyofumi F. Chen-Yoshikawa

Journal of Visualized Surgery

2021;

(20 April 2021)

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Review Article

Coarctation of aorta in adults: a narrative review of surgical and endovascular management

Bashi V. Velayudhan, A. Mohammed Idhrees

Journal of Visualized Surgery

2021;

(20 April 2021)

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Review Article

Robotic-assisted esophageal diverticulectomy

Graeme Rosenberg, Mark F. Berry

Journal of Visualized Surgery

2021;

(20 April 2021)

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Review Article

Complex mitral valve regurgitation: surgical evaluation, approach and repair techniques

Chartaroon Rimsukcharoenchai, Dimosthenis Pandis, Ahmed El-Eshmawi, Anelechi C. Anyanwu, David H. Adams

Journal of Visualized Surgery

2021;

(20 April 2021)

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Review Article

Robot-assisted laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication using the DaVinci Xi

David S. Demos, William B. Tisol

Journal of Visualized Surgery

2021;

(20 April 2021)

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Review Article

Current status of lung transplantation in Japan—report from Japanese lung transplant registry

Yoshinori Okada, Masayuki Chida, June Nakajima, Ichiro Yoshino, Yasushi Shintani, Takahiro Oto, Takeshi Shiraishi, Takeshi Nagayasu, Hiroshi Date

Journal of Visualized Surgery

2021;

(20 April 2021)

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Review Article

Robot-assisted laparoscopic heller myotomy using the DaVinci Xi

David S. Demos, William B. Tisol

Journal of Visualized Surgery

2021;

(20 April 2021)

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Case Report

Myocutaneous pedicled flap in treatment of the tuberculous bronchopleural fistula—a case report

Antonio Tuoro, Annalisa Barbarossa, Vincenzo Aversa, Armando Puglisi, Carlopietro Voci

Journal of Visualized Surgery

2021;

(20 January 2021)

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Case Report

Corporoplasty using pseudocapsule for repair of penile implant erosion

Daniel Swerdloff, Joseph Mahon, Charles Welliver

Journal of Visualized Surgery

2021;

(20 January 2021)

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Case Report

Case report: Da Vinci robot-assisted modified minimally invasive total esophagectomy

Shaobin Yu, Lin Chen, Ling Chen, Shuchen Chen, Ziyan Han, Mingqiang Kang

Journal of Visualized Surgery

2021;

(20 January 2021)

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Review Article

Complete thymectomy for myasthenia gravis

Jens-C. Rückert, Hongbin Zhang, Feng Li, Deniz Uluk, Mahmoud Ismail, Andreas Meisel

Journal of Visualized Surgery

2021;

(20 January 2021)

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Review Article

Aortic valve sparing surgery—patient selection and techniques

Vincent Chauvette, Marie-Ève Chamberland, Laurence Lefebvre, Ismail El-Hamamsy

Journal of Visualized Surgery

2021;

(20 January 2021)

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Review Article

Prevention and management of penile prosthesis infections

Lael Reinstatler, Martin S. Gross

Journal of Visualized Surgery

2021;

(20 January 2021)

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Review Article

Robotic-assisted Ivor Lewis esophagectomy—end-to-end anastomosis (EEA)

Sean C. Wightman, Natalie S. Lui

Journal of Visualized Surgery

2021;

(20 January 2021)

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Original Article

Uniportal subxiphoid video assisted thoracoscopy surgery approach for bilateral lesions

Balasubramanian Venkitaraman, Zhaolong Zeng, Jiang Lei, Giuseppe Aresu

Journal of Visualized Surgery

2021;

(20 January 2021)

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Original Article

Aortic valve sparing aortic root replacement (David procedure) via an upper hemisternotomy: Hannover experience

Erik Beckmann, Andreas Martens, Heike Krueger, Tim Kaufeld, Axel Haverich, Malakh Shrestha

Journal of Visualized Surgery

2021;

(20 January 2021)

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Editorial

Advancements in the management of thoracic aortic dissection

Derek Serna-Gallegos, George J. Arnaoutakis, Ibrahim Sultan

Journal of Visualized Surgery

2021;

(20 January 2021)

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Editorial

Advancement in treatment for esophageal disease

Douglas Z. Liou

Journal of Visualized Surgery

2021;

(20 January 2021)

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Letter to the Editor

Multidisciplinary approach to minimally invasive lung segmentectomy

Matthieu Sarsam, Jean-Marc Baste, Samy Lachkar

Journal of Visualized Surgery

2020;

(05 October 2020)

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Teaching Uniportal in Iraq

Single port training in Iraq-first uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery masterclass in Sulaimaniyah, Region of Kurdistan

Darya Akram Faqe Mahmood, Diego Gonzalez-Rivas

Journal of Visualized Surgery

2020;

(05 October 2020)

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Teaching Uniportal VATS in Myanmar

First Myanmar uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery masterclass

Diego Gonzalez-Rivas, Tint Zaw Oo, Godwin Lew, Ariel Zhu

Journal of Visualized Surgery

2020;

(05 October 2020)

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Case Report

Robotic resection of a mediastinal hydatic cyst and diaphragmatic repair: a case report

Sotirios Georgios Popeskou, Jonathan Douissard, Niki Christou, Giacomo Puppa, Frederic Ris, Nicolas Christian Buchs, Minoa Karin Jung, Christian Toso

Journal of Visualized Surgery

2020;

(05 October 2020)

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Review Article

Robotic-assisted Ivor Lewis esophagectomy with combined stapled/sewn anastomosis

Deven C. Patel, Evangeline Rodriguez, Fernando Espinoza-Mercardo, Taryne A. Imai, Harmik J. Soukiasian

Journal of Visualized Surgery

2020;

(05 October 2020)

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Review Article

Minimally invasive mitral valve repair using external clamping— pearls and pitfalls

Karel M. Van Praet, Markus Kofler, Matteo Montagner, Roland Heck, Dirk Eggert-Doktor, Christof Stamm, Axel Unbehaun, Stephan Jacobs, Volkmar Falk, Jörg Kempfert

Journal of Visualized Surgery

2020;

(05 October 2020)

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Review Article

Robotic left S^9-10 lung segmentectomy: how I do it?

Ilies Bouabdallah

Journal of Visualized Surgery

2020;

(05 October 2020)

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Review Article

Endoluminal wound vac: an evolving role in treatment of esophageal perforation

Carolyn Baindu Moore, Omar Almoghrabi, Wayne Hofstetter, Nirmal Veeramachaneni

Journal of Visualized Surgery

2020;

(05 October 2020)

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Review Article

Robotic surgery for locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer

Piergiorgio Muriana, Gianluca Perroni, Pierluigi Novellis, Giulia Veronesi

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Valve sparing root replacement with the reimplantation technique in patients presenting with acute type A aortic dissections

Joshua C. Grimm, John J. Kelly, Wilson Y. Szeto

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Frozen elephant trunk and hemiarch for type A aortic dissection

Saket Singh, Sameh Yousef, Roland Assi, Prashanth Vallabhajosyula

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Cerebral protection in type A aortic dissection

Christian V. Ghincea, Muhammad Aftab, Yuki Ikeno, Andrew L. Mesher, T. Brett Reece

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Pulmonary resection after immunotherapy

Prabhu Sasankan, Jonathan Hyde, Simeng Wang, Travis C. Geraci, Robert J. Cerfolio

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Florida Sleeve for type A dissection

Kirsten A. Freeman, Thomas M. Beaver, Eric I. Jeng, Tomas D. Martin, George J. Arnaoutakis

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Adjunct procedures for malperfusion syndrome in complicated acute type B aortic dissection

Othman M. Abdul-Malak, Nathan L. Liang, Michel S. Makaroun, Efthymios D. Avgerinos

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Open repair of chronic type B aortic dissection

Joel S. Corvera, Philip J. Hess Jr, John W. Fehrenbacher

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Recent developments in thoracic endovascular aortic repair for chronic type B dissection

Shinichi Fukuhara, Lise Tchouta, Yujiro Yokoyama, Rudra Pampati, Minhaj S. Khaja

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Role of thoracic endovascular aortic repair in the management of acute type B aortic dissection

Xiaoying Lou, Bradley G. Leshnower

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Total arch replacement in the treatment of acute type A aortic dissection

Rizwan Q. Attia, Duke E. Cameron, Thoralf M. Sundt III, Arminder S. Jassar

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Role of video-assisted thoracic surgery in T4 NSCLC

Debora Brascia, Giulia De Iaco, Marcella Schiavone, Samuele Nicotra, Francesca Signore, Teodora Panza, Alessandro Geronimo, Doroty Sampietro, Giuseppe Marulli

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Robotic segmentectomy S7+S8 with the use of indocyanine green (ICG): technical details

Gianluca Perroni, Giulia Veronesi

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Robotic right medial and anterior basal segmentectomy (S7+S8)

Pierre-Benoit Pagès, Leslie Madelaine, Ivan Gutierrez

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Hemiarch replacement with aortic root preservation for acute type A aortic dissection

Andreas Habertheuer, Thomas G. Gleason, Edgar Aranda-Michel, Arman Kilic, Valentino Bianco, Eric Hyzny, Zachary Kassir, Forozan Navid, Ibrahim Sultan

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Left upper and left lower sleeve lobectomies with robotic surgery

Alper Toker, Erkan Kaba, Robert Herron, Kemal Ayalp

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Narrative review: open surgery for thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm—is it still a horrible surgery?

Rishabh Kothari, Scott A. Weldon, Cuneyt Koksoy, Joseph S. Coselli

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Thoracic endovascular aortic repair for type A aortic dissection: a promising option for inoperable patients

Gregory P. Boyajian, Anahita Ghazi, Irina Kolesnik, Shahab Toursavadkohi, Mehrdad Ghoreishi, Bradley Taylor

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Combined approach for NSCLC with chest wall invasion: the role of VATS

Jury Brandolini, Giampiero Dolci, Filippo Antonacci, Niccolò Daddi, Pietro Bertoglio, Kenji Kawamukai, Barbara Bonfanti, Francesca Calabrese, Sergio Fortiparri, Alessandro Gasbarrini, Piergiorgio Solli

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Narrative review of the thoracic endovascular aortic repair-first approach for mesenteric malperfusion in type A aortic dissection

Kanika Kalra, Bradley G. Leshnower, Edward P. Chen

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Case Report

Pulmonary arteriovenous malformation treated with uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic lobectomy: a case report

Benedict Dharmaraj, Narasimman Sathiamurthy, Nguk Chai Diong, Narendran Balasubbiah, Arvin Rajadurai

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Combined right thoracotomy and left video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for left tracheal sleeve pneumonectomy: a case report

Marco Mammana, Giovanni M. Comacchio, Alessandro Pangoni, Andrea Zuin, Samuele Nicotra, Chiara Giraudo, Federico Rea

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Reoperative repair of adult aortic coarctation with explantation of thoracic stent-graft: a case report

N. Bryce Robinson, Woodrow J. Farrington, Peter Maresca, Irbaz Hameed, Erin M. Iannacone, Christopher Lau, Mario Gaudino, Leonard N. Girardi

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Arch replacement following endovascular arch repair for an infected stent: case report

Ana Lopez-Marco, Saleem Jahangeer, Benjamin Adams, Aung Ye Oo

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Post-immunotherapy combined operative technique with an anterior surgical approach and robot-assisted lobectomy for an anterior superior sulcus tumor—case report

Marko Kostic, Matthieu Sarsam, Benjamin Bottet, Jean-Marc Baste

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Robotic Whipple procedure for a branch duct intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm: a case report

Fernando Augusto V. Santos, Flávia C. T. Viana, Diego P. C. Garcia, Luiz R. Alberti, Henrique P. Corrêa, Matheus S. Ramos, Mariana S. F. e Silva, Carolina B. Moura

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Aortic valve neocuspidization with glutaraldehyde-treated autologous pericardium to avoid the prosthesis-patient mismatch of a severely obese 57-year-old patient—a case report

Alberto Albertini, Eliana Raviola, Fabio Zucchetta, Carlotta Brega, Elisa Mikus, Alberto Tripodi

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Thoracoabdominal aorta replacement with branched graft for visceral and segmental artery reimplantation—case report

Kay-Hyun Park, Jae Hang Lee

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Uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic lower sleeve bilobectomy: a case report

Jesus Isea de la Viña, Diego Gonzalez Rivas

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Robot-assisted bronchial sleeve left upper lobectomy for locally advanced bronchopulmonary squamous cell carcinoma after neoadjuvant chemotherapy: a case report

Xianfei Zhang, Dingpei Han, Jie Xiang, Kai Chen, Hecheng Li

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Robotic assisted thoracoscopic middle lobe sleeve resection: a case report

Herbert Decaluwé

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Rapid expansion of the descending aorta following total arch replacement with a FROZENIX-open stent-graft for thoracic aortic aneurysm in a patient with Marfan syndrome: a case report

Tatsuya Nakao, Shoichi Tsuda, Nao Kume, Yuki Ikegaya, Yosuke Kitanaka

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Lung isolation strategies for repeat video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) after major lung resections, a case series

Thirugnanam Agasthian

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Surgical video on the sternotomy-sparing medial approach thyroidectomy for a substernal multinodular goiter case report

Allen Young, Harry Ching, Sabrina Ho, Robert C. Wang

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Anomalous mediastinal left lower lobe anterior segmental artery (A8) accidentally divided during left VATS upper lobectomy, a case presentation

Thirugnanam Agasthian

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A case report of valve-sparing aortic root replacement in a patient with full metal jacket aorta

Masahide Kawatou, Kenji Minatoya, Kazuhiro Yamazaki, Hideo Kanemitsu, Kazuhisa Sakamoto, Jiro Sakai

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Single staple tissue preserving excision of intraluminal gastric GIST—preliminary case series

Francesco Di Maggio, James A. Gossage

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Giant myxoma removal through a 3D-4K minimally invasive thoracoscopy: a case report and step-by-step guide

Francesco Pollari, Lucia Weber, Theodor Fischlein

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New tools in minimal invasive aortic valve surgery: case report

Sofia Martin-Suarez, Carlo Mariani, Giacomo Murana, Marianna Berardi, Marta Agulli, Savini Carlo, Davide Pacini

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Surgical video on the successful preservation of the non-recurrent laryngeal nerve and the importance of preoperative CT imaging during total thyroidectomy case report

Allen Young, Robert C. Wang

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Laparoscopic management of colovesical fistula secondary to sigmoid diverticulitis: case report and the role of intraoperative indocyanine-green fluorescence

Emanuele Asti, Daniele Bernardi, Erika Andreatta, Andrea Conti, Luca Carmignani, Luigi Bonavina

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Mediastinal ectopic thyroid video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) excision: a case report

Michele Ferrari, Valeria Musso, Cristina Diotti, Davide Tosi

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Challenging surgical management of failed freestyle stentless porcine valve: two case reports

Parth M. Patel, Edward P. Chen

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Combined spinal and video-assisted thoracoscopic (VATS) approach to thoracic neurogenic dumbbell tumour in the prone position: a case report

Thirugnanam Agasthian, James Chee Min Khoo

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Non-intubated uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopy for sleeve lobectomy in a patient with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a case report

Lihua Dai, Zhigang Chen, Jacopo Vannucci, Jianqiao Cai, Xin Lv, Jianming Liu, Lei Jiang

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Retroperitoneal schwannoma mimicking a pancreatic cystic neoplasm: a case report

Samer AlMasri, Ibrahim Nassour, Aatur D. Singhi, Amer Zureikat, Alessandro Paniccia

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Mediastinal hydatid cyst: an unusual case report

Najat Id el haj, Souheil Boubia, Mohammed Ridai

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Surgical Technique

Surgical technique of using absorbable, knotless, unidirectional barbed suture as a modified purse string suture

Thirugnanam Agasthian

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Review Article on Thoracic Surgery

Robotic substernal esophageal bypass and reconstruction with gastric conduit—frequently overlooked minimally invasive option

Roman V. Petrov, Charles T. Bakhos, Abbas E. Abbas

Journal Highlight more

The Journal of Visualized Surgery is an international peer-reviewed, open-access journal focusing on visualized surgery, including instructional and educational video clips, photos, and schematics of visualized surgical procedures. Topics to be covered by this journal include, but are not limited to: Cardiothoracic Surgery, Colorectal Surgery, Gland Surgery, HBP Surgery, ENT Surgery, Orthopedic Surgery, Urosurgery, Pediatric Surgery, Plastic Surgery, and Minimal Invasive Surgery.