The most widely used da Vinci a prototype robot, which was a master-slave manipulator with three arms, one for the camera and two for operating the instruments used in various fields such as urology, general surgery, gynecology, cardio-thoracic, pediatric and ENT surgery came in to existence in 1997. This has proved to be a breakthrough technology and stood the test of time since its origin. Th...

We report a case of recurrent locking of the scapula in the thorax after combined lobectomy and thoracic wall resection for advanced lung cancer. The patient was a 52-year-old man with advanced spindle cell carcinoma in his right lung. He had undergone right lung lobectomy and thoracic wall excision (Th1-5). Intrathoracic repair had not been performed to address the defect in the thoracic wall....

OBJECTIVE To evaluate early and mid-term results in patients undergoing proximal thoracic aortic redo surgery. METHODS We analyzed 60 patients (median age 60 years, median logistic EuroSCORE 40) who underwent proximal thoracic aortic redo surgery between January 2005 and April 2012. Outcome and risk factors were analyzed. RESULTS In hospital mortality was 13%, perioperative neurologic injur...

Victor A. TARASOV, Professor, Head of the Department of Thoracic Surgery, Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education, St.Petersburg, Russia Evgeny S. POBEGALOV, Associate Professor, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education, St.Petersburg, Russia Vladimir V. STAVROVIETSKIY, Chief of the Thoracic Surgery Unit, Municipal Hospital No. 26, St.Petersburg, Russia Yuriy ...

abstract traumatic descending thoracic aorta pseudo aneurysms have been treated traditionally with open surgery in the past, which have had noticeable rates of mortality and morbidity. a safer method of treatment for this disease is made possible with recent progress in endovascular treatment techniques. in this article, we present three cases of traumatic descending thoracic aorta pseudo aneur...

Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota; Section of General Thoracic Surgery, University of California, Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California; Division of Thoracic Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts; Division of Thoracic Surgery, WellStar Health System, Marietta, Georgia; Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of A...

Objective: Subtotal gastrectomy has been successfully performed using thoracic epidural anaesthesia alone in two high-risk surgical patients. We describe these two cases by using the Bromage’s formula to calculate the required doses for a satisfactory segmental block. Case Report: Two high-risk surgical patients were scheduled for sub-total gastrectomy. They received thoracic epidural anaesthes...

1 Serdar Özkan1, Ertan Aydın2, Özgür Ömer Yıldız3, Ülkü Yazıcı4, Mehmet Furkan Şahin5, Funda Demirağ6 1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Karatay University Medicana Faculty of Medicine, Konya, 2Department of Thoracic Surgery, Koru Hospital, Ankara, 3Department of Thoracic Surgery, Dışkapı Yıldırım Bayezit Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, 4Department of Thoracic Surgery, Ataturk Training an...

The surgical management of advanced epithelial ovarian cancer involves cytoreduction, or removal of grossly-evident tumor. Residual disease after surgical cytoreduction of ovarian cancer has been shown to be strongly associated with survival. The goal of surgery is "optimal" surgical cytoreduction, which is generally defined as residual disease of 1 cm or less. However, the designation of "opti...