Intralobar pulmonary sequestration: robotical resection using indocyanine green.

Pulmonary sequestration (PS) is a relatively rare congenital lung anomaly. There are two different subtypes of PS, intralobar and extralobar sequestration. The majority of cases is constituted by intralobar sequestration.

[Robot-assisted Lung Surgery: Techniques, Evidence and Data on Anatomical Resections].

Thanks to improved visualisation and instruments with an endowrist function, robot-assisted thoracic surgery has led to technical progress in thoracic surgery. This makes it easier to carry out complex thoracic surgical interventions, e.g.

pUL36 Deubiquitinase Activity Augments Both the Initiation and the Progression of Lytic Herpes Simplex Virus Infection in IFN-Primed Cells.

The evolutionarily conserved, structural HSV-1 tegument protein pUL36 is essential for both virus entry and assembly. While its N-terminal deubiquitinase (DUB) activity is dispensable for infection in cell culture, it is required for efficient virus spread , as it acts as a potent viral immune evasin. Interferon (IFN) induces the expression of hundreds of antiviral factors, including many ubiquitin modulators, which HSV-1 needs to neutralize to efficiently initiate a productive infection.