Educational Content

This section contains ESTS learning material, and links to other sites that relate to thoracic surgery. Please see below a list of all content. Some material is restricted to certain groups, for example those attending a particular meeting or event.

Some links in this section are to external resources which we believe may be of interest to our members, but which are not produced or endorsed by ESTS. The ESTS is not responsible for content hosted on external sites.

Anterior approach to station 7 at left upper lobectomy 30 October 2015

An operative video demonstrating the anteior approach to station 7 sampling after a VATS left upper lobectomy, from Mr Gianluca Casali and the team at University Hospitals Bristol, England.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_mL2L1VRsA View in more detail

VATS uniportal left upper lobe trisegmentectomy 30 October 2015

Hasan Batirel and Zeynep Bigli from Marmara demonstrate their technique for left upper lobe segement 1-3 trisegmentectomy via a uniportal VATS approach. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYRxJZ7I6ao View in more detail

Link to Dr Todd Demmy's atlas of thoracoscopic lobectomy 20 July 2013

Dr Todd Demmy of the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, NY has published a video atlas of techniques in thoracoscopic lobectomy online. It can be viewed here. View in more detail