All Articles - Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery

Review Article

Artificial intelligence-assisted three-dimensional reconstruction in thoracic surgery: a narrative review

Zhixing Song, Azeem Izhar, Benjamin Wei

Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery

2025;

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6

(28 February 2025)

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Implementation of enhanced recovery after surgery program for lung resection

Merav Rokah, Lorenzo Ferri

Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery

2025;

7:

5

(28 February 2025)

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Surgical considerations in non-small cell lung cancer patients following neoadjuvant immunotherapy or targeted therapy: a narrative review

Rachel M. Lee, Ravi Rajaram

Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery

2025;

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4

(28 February 2025)

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Challenges in the treatment of persistent air leak

Jennifer Wong, H. Erhan Dincer

Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery

2025;

7:

3

(28 February 2025)

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A narrative review on ex vivo lung perfusion: up-to-date role in lung transplantation

Daniel Kyrillos Ragheb, Haytham Elgharably, Kamal S. Ayyat

Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery

2025;

7:

2

(28 February 2025)

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Original Article

Institutional learning curve for operative chest injury management as defined by outcomes

Angela Y. Gao, Jenna N. Whitrock, Michael D. Goodman, Jay N. Nathwani, Christopher F. Janowak

Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery

2025;

7:

1

(28 February 2025)

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Pancoast tumors: current management and outcomes—a narrative review

Scarlett Tohme, Kavita Parikh, Paul C. Lee

Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery

2024;

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34

(30 December 2024)

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Perioperative outcomes of uniportal robotic-assisted thoracic surgery (U-RATS) for lung resection: state of the art—a narrative review

Ahmad Alturki, Fadel Alturki, Paul-Henri Koziej, Francisco Javier Carrero-Gomez, Sohal Kusber, Diego Gonzalez-Rivas, Daniel Valdivia

Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery

2024;

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33

(30 December 2024)

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A roadmap to totally switching from video-assisted thoracic surgery to robotics in thoracic surgery: hints and pitfalls from a surgeon’s experience

Vasileios Kouritas

Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery

2024;

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32

(30 December 2024)

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A review of managing catastrophes in robotic-assisted thoracic surgery

Shamele Battan-Wraith, Kevin Wang, Ahmed Elkamel, Kameron Durante, Hope Conrad, Kayla Iannarelli, Olugbenga T. Okusanya, Praveen Sridhar, Stephanie G. Worrell

Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery

2024;

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31

(30 December 2024)

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Review Article

Ground-glass opacity lung cancers—a review of the literature

Joesph F. O’Malley, Christopher J. Dilli, Setu Patolia, Nirmal K. Veeramachaneni

Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery

2024;

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30

(30 December 2024)

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Original Article

Anemia is an independent risk factor for worse 30-day outcomes in surgical aortic valve replacement: an insight from the ACS-NSQIP database from 2005 to 2022

Renxi Li, Deyanira J. Prastein

Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery

2024;

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29

(30 December 2024)

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Editorial Commentary

Current status of surgical treatment for lung cancer oligometastases

Yoshihisa Shimada

Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery

2024;

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28

(30 October 2024)

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Editorial Commentary

Advances and challenges in molecular analysis among patients with synchronous multiple primary lung cancers

Nika Samadzadeh Tabrizi, Junyi Liu, Thomas Fabian

Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery

2024;

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27

(30 October 2024)

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Editorial Commentary

Preoperative mediastinal staging: targeted versus systematic nodal sampling

Pere Serra-Mitjà, José Sanz-Santos

Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery

2024;

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26

(30 October 2024)

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Editorial Commentary

Emerging trends and potential clinical applications of microbial biomarkers in thoracic surgery

Housne Begum, Eta Ebasi Ashu, Pria Nippak

Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery

2024;

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25

(30 October 2024)

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Review Article

Quality control and evaluation system for general thoracic surgery

Yijiu Ren, Guochao Zhang, Xuefei Hu, Dong Xie, Deping Zhao, Qi Xue, Chang Chen

Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery

2024;

6:

24

(30 October 2024)

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Original Article

Initial outcomes of a robotic thoracic fellowship programme—a feasible and safe way to train the next generation

Ben Shanahan, Richard Galloway, Periklis Perikleous, Steven Stamenkovic

Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery

2024;

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23

(30 October 2024)

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Editorial Commentary

What is the optimal lymph node dissection strategy for patients undergoing sublobar resection for early-stage peripheral non-small cell lung cancer?

Dong-Hyun Joo, Yeon Wook Kim

Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery

2024;

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22

(30 August 2024)

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Editorial Commentary

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation & lung transplant outcomes: COVID-19 pandemic

Hamna Javed, Iqbal Ratnani, Salim Surani

Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery

2024;

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21

(30 August 2024)

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Case Report

Salvage tracheal surgery for symptomatic tracheal lesion, a rare primary pulmonary myxoid sarcoma: case report

Antoine Sion, Nicolas Venissac, Clément Fournier, Romain Dubois, Rias Akkad, Ecaterina Surmei, Axel Plaisant, Julien De Wolf

Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery

2024;

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20

(30 August 2024)

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Case Report

Indocyanine green (ICG) fiducial coil guided wedge resection of recurrent adenocarcinoma in a patient with prior segmentectomy: a case report

Vinay Padbidri, Alda Huang, Nelly Chow, Sixto Arias, Nestor Villamizar

Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery

2024;

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(30 August 2024)

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Review Article

Actionable adverse event monitoring and feedback to improve thoracic surgical care

Daniel Jones, Zubair Ahmadzai, Andrew J. E. Seely

Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery

2024;

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18

(30 August 2024)

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Review Article

The rising role of cryobiopsy in diagnosis of pulmonary disorders: a narrative review

Sylvia S. Yong, Christopher M. Kapp

Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery

2024;

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17

(30 August 2024)

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Editorial Commentary

Salvage lung resection: if you’re not first, you’re last

Hannah Kooperkamp, C. Matthew Kinsey

Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery

2024;

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16

(30 June 2024)

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