Resources for thoracic reading?

[treehorsio]

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Grr. I can't find, in all my textbooks, any good stuff on lobes, VATS, etc. Neither Cameron, Sabiston, or Chaisson's has anything.

What do you guys use?

 

[idiot07]

Do you have Access Surgery via your institution? It has Adult Chest Surgery in it, which is nice. www.ctsnet.org also has some nice procedural descriptions under the techniques tab. Mastery of Surgery has some short sections on lobectomy.

 

[SLUser11]

Grr. I can't find, in all my textbooks, any good stuff on lobes, VATS, etc. Neither Cameron, Sabiston, or Chaisson's has anything.

What do you guys use?

I ran into a similar problem 4 years ago when I was on the CT service. Here's a link to my old thread.

What about Mastery of Surgery? I haven't been in that book for a while, but does it describe thoracic operations?

 

[Dr.LeoSpaceman]

Grr. I can't find, in all my textbooks, any good stuff on lobes, VATS, etc. Neither Cameron, Sabiston, or Chaisson's has anything.

What do you guys use?

If you can find a friend that has it, take a look at Shield's General Thoracic Surgery. As close to "comprehensive" as I found. It's too detailed and too expensive for someone not going into CT, so that's why I'd say the library or a friend is your best bet.

 

[ironxc]

For my money it's Chest by Sugarbaker and the guys at the Brigham.

 

[dynx]

Open chest, remove lobe. What's to write?

 

[Buzz Me]

If you have access (probably through your med school/residency program), good basic books would be the aforementioned Shields (the "bible" of thoracic surgery), or Sabiston and Spencer.

In most Gen Surg books the entire thoracic and/or cardiac field is summarized as one chapter - hardly sufficient if you're looking for more detail.

CTSNet may also have some good resources, such as their free textbooks, journal articles ("how I do it" type) or their atlas.