Thoracic surgery is a surgical specialty applied to pathologies of the thorax.
It involves the thoracic cage and everything within the thorax except for the heart, which is the subject of a separate specialty, cardiac surgery.
Procedures:
- Lung cancers
- Tumors of the thoracic wall and mediastinum (thymus, etc.)
- Pulmonary diseases
- Pleural diseases
- Infectious and degenerative mediastinal diseases
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