Elliot Servais, MD, FACS
@elliotservaismd
Chief, Thoracic Surgery @LaheySurgery @bethisraellahey. Associate Professor @UMassChan @TuftsMedSchool. Husband. Father.
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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS AATS Surgical Clinics Tom Varghese Jr. MD, MS, MBA, FACS, MAMSE 🇺🇸 Thoracic Surgery Outcomes Research Network, Inc Brian Mitzman Brendon Stiles Intuitive Society of Robotic Surgery | SRS Shanda Blackmon, MD, MPH Shawn Groth Linda Martin Mara Antonoff, MD, FACS This is so important. My colleague & I do a ‘vascular pause’ during the hairier parts of 🤖 pancreatic surgery. Re-iterate roles in need of emergency de-dock. It heightens awareness for key parts of the op before relaxing to ‘smoother sailing’ bits
Elliot Servais, MD, FACS Tom Varghese Jr. MD, MS, MBA, FACS, MAMSE 🇺🇸 Elliott R Haut, MD, PhD Brings back memories of “that” thymectomy paper 🤨 In the digital era, limited space on the paper page should not be an excuse. Digitalization must promote a broader discussion.
Elliot Servais, MD, FACS Elliott R Haut, MD, PhD You’ve tried contacting the editor-in-chief of that journal directly? Publishing letters is at the discretion of the EIC and editorial board, and most of the leading journals follow the principles of the international committee of medical journal editors (ICMJE)
The 2025 Society of University Surgeons (SUS) Society of University Surgeons (SUS) Presidential speech is now online via the SUS website: susweb.org . Thanks to those who were able to be there in person for the speech. Recap can be found at this link: susweb.org/.../asc-2025-r… Notes for the
Elliot Servais, MD, FACS Tom Varghese Jr. MD, MS, MBA, FACS, MAMSE 🇺🇸 As an editor, I have a responsibility to ensure best science. Hopefully flawed research doesn’t make it past the peer review process, but we may not be perfect. If so, we are obligated to remedy the situation. Sometimes publishing a letter to the editor is enough. Or retraction.
#TechniquesThursday: Robotic Belsey fundoplication: How I do it from Tufts School of Medicine. Watch the video below and read more in #JTCVS Techniques: doi.org/10.1016/j.xjtc… Dena Shehata Edilin López, MD Susan Moffatt-Bruce Elliot Servais, MD, FACS
Drew Moghanaki Yes. If you did a sublobar resection with less than 3 lymph nodes sampled then sublobar resection survival was NOT equivalent to lobectomy. Possibly bc patients are understaged and don’t get adjuvant treatment, or as a reflection of quality of the surgical resection overall.
Elliot Servais, MD, FACS Drew Moghanaki Gavitt Woodard Yale Thoracic Surgery Jonathan Spicer MD PhD Linda Martin Brendon Stiles Biniam Kidane To make things even more confusing we also have the term “lymphadenectomy”. What I’ve used in practice is as follows: - Lymph node sampling: as the term implies, “sampling” - Lymph node dissection: complete removal of a specific group of nodes - Lymphadenectomy: complete
Elliot Servais, MD, FACS Jonathan Spicer MD PhD Agree. Why would the cells spreading via airway or other pathways confine themselves to just the remaining anatomic lobe (and not spread everywhere)? Makes no sense to think more local therapy gets it all. Agree systemic therapy more important than completion lobectomy
Vamsi Aribindi Elliot Servais, MD, FACS Drew Moghanaki Gavitt Woodard Yale Thoracic Surgery AATS Journals Marc Vimolratana I disagree! Several points to consider: -Metastases can arise from cells in lymph nodes (at least in experimental models) -From seminal adj trials, we know that surgery alone can cure some patients w/ LN mets -We do see patients w/ local/regional only recurrence (CALGB 😟)
