Christopher Digesu, MD
Assistant Professor, Surgery

Publications
- Published on 10/1/2024
Chugh PV, Seldomridge AN, Kester L, Rasic G, Theodore S, Sanchez SE, Dechert T, Digesu CS. Advancing Cultural Competency and Equity in Surgical Specialties (ACCESS): A Model for a Combined Resident and Faculty DEI Initiative. J Surg Educ. 2024 Dec; 81(12):103287. PMID: 39357295.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 9/17/2024
Shehata DG, Digesu CS, Lopez E, Vigna C, Moffatt-Bruce S, Stock CT, Servais EL, Watkins AA. Robotic-Assisted Pleurectomy Is a Safe and Effective Surgical Treatment for Spontaneous Pneumothorax. J Surg Res. 2024 Oct; 302:944-948. PMID: 39293269.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 5/12/2023
Hendrix RJ, Digesu CS, Watkins AA, Stock CT, Servais EL. Robot-Assisted Left Lower Sleeve Lobectomy for Mucoepidermoid Carcinoma. Ann Thorac Surg Short Rep. 2023 Sep; 1(3):479-482. PMID: 39790944.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 4/1/2023
Wittenberg RE, Scott BB, Recco DP, Digesu CS, Kent MS. Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Reduction of Gastroesophageal Intussusception With Gastropexy. Ann Thorac Surg Short Rep. 2023 Sep; 1(3):505-508. PMID: 39790980.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 11/3/2022
Blessing WA, Digesu CS, Liu R, Mahvi DA, Tal-Mason A, Kumar A, Hachey KJ, Colby AH, Korunes-Miller JT, Agar N, Regan MS, Shih A, Raut CP, Grinstaff MW, Colson YL. Sustained Supratherapeutic Paclitaxel Delivery Enhances Irreversible Sarcoma Cell Death. Mol Cancer Ther. 2022 Nov 03; 21(11):1663-1673. PMID: 36031342.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 8/10/2021
Digesu CS, Ospina-Delgado D, Ascanio J, Majid A, Parikh MS, Gangadharan SP, Wilson JL. Obese Patients Undergoing Tracheobronchoplasty Have Excellent Outcomes. Ann Thorac Surg. 2022 09; 114(3):926-932. PMID: 34384743.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 1/1/2021
Digesu CS, Kent M. Atlas of Minimally Invasive and Robotic Esophagectomy. Minimally invasive Ivor Lewis esophagectomy. 2021.
- Published on 10/1/2020
Phillips WW, Weiss KD, Digesu CS, Gill RR, Mazzola E, Tsukada H, Schumacher LY, Colson YL. Finding the "True" N0 Cohort: Technical Aspects of Near-infrared Sentinel Lymph Node Mapping in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer. Ann Surg. 2020 10; 272(4):583-588. PMID: 32657925.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 1/1/2020
Digesu CS, Wilson JL. TSRA Review of Cardiothoracic Surgery. Chylothorax. 2020.
- Published on 5/1/2018
Digesu CS, Weiss KD, Colson YL. Near-Infrared Sentinel Lymph Node Identification in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. JAMA Surg. 2018 May 01; 153(5):487-488. PMID: 29590291.
Read at: PubMed
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