Thoracic Surgery
Thoracic surgeons are medical doctors who perform surgery on the chest cavity, also called thorax. This specialty provides operative, perioperative and critical care to patients with pathological conditions of the following structures within the thorax:
- Lungs
- Esophagus
- Chest wall
- Diaphragm
- Mediastinum (area between the lungs)
Below is a list of commonly treated conditions by a thoracic surgeon:
- Mediastinoscopy
- Thymectomy
- Pericardial Window
- Bronchoscopy
- Airway Stent Placement
- Lung Biopsy
- Pleural Biopsy
- Decortication
- Spontaneous Pneumothorax
- Pleural Effusion
- Wedge Resection
- Lobectomy
- Sleeve Resection
- Pneumonectomy
- Lung Volume Reduction Surgery
- Chest Wall Tumors
- Diagphragm Plication
- Esophagoscopy
- Esophageal Stent Placement
- Nissen Repair
- Paraesophageal Hernia Repair
- Heller Myotomy
- Zenker’s Diverticulum
- Esophageal Perforation
- Esophagectomy
