Robotic Resection of Ectopic Thyroid Tissue of the Mediastinum - Case Report and Literature Review.

Ectopic thyroid tissue (ETT) is a rare cause of mediastinal masses, representing less than 1% of all mediastinal tumors (1). ETT could be detected anywhere along the path of the first embryonic descent of the thyroid gland from the primordial foregut floor to its usual pre-tracheal position. ETT mediastinal localization accounts for fewer than 1% of all ectopic thyroid cases (2,3).

Robotic Assisted Thoracoscopic Repair of Iatrogenic Tracheal Rupture.

Tracheal rupture is a rare condition, and its most common cause is head and neck trauma. Iatrogenic rupture is extremely rare and has multiple causes of which orotracheal intubation is the most common (1). Its importance derives from the associated high morbidity and mortality.

Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery - Video Assisted Thoracic Surgery: Technique and Indications.

Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery (VATS) is already practised worldwide, in almost every condition addressed by open thoracic surgery. As part of minimally invasive thoracic surgery (MITS), VATS offers to patients and to healthcare providers excellent results and great satisfactions. Learning and performing VATS use different pathways in trainees and in experienced surgeons.

Giant Cavernous Hemangioma of the Right Atrium - A Rare Case and Literature Review.

A 52 years old woman, asymptomatic, with no significant medical history, presented to a thoracic surgery department for excision of a giant mediastinal mass that was incidentally detected during a routine abdominal ultrasound. Various imaging methods (echocardiography, chest X-ray, CT-scan, MRI) located the mediastinal mass as paracardiac and the excision using video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) was proposed, in general thoracic surgery department. Although initially considered a paracardiac mass, intraoperatively the tumor location proved to be intrapericardial.