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Thoracic Surgery

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Last Update Date: 8/23/2024 3:38:49 PM

What is Thoracic Surgery?

Thoracic surgery is a branch that performs surgical interventions for organs such as the heart, lungs, larynx, chest wall, diaphragm and mediastinum in the chest area. In addition to performing surgical intervention for disorders in these organs, they can also take part in the diagnosis and follow-up of diseases.

Thoracic surgeons offer services in the following areas:

Chest Wall Surgery
Lung Surgery
Cardiac Surgery
Chest Wall Reconstruction
Mediastinal Surgery
Esophageal Surgery
Surgical Management of Chest Traumas

What Diseases Does Thoracic Surgery Treat

Thoracic surgery deals with all of the diseases that affect the organs located in the chest and require surgical intervention and follow-up. We can list the main ones as follows:

Lung Diseases:

Lung cancer
Pneumonia (inflammation of the lungs)
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
Lung abscesses
Pulmonary fibrosis

Heart Diseases:

Heart valve diseases
Coronary artery disease (coronary artery bypass surgery, stent placement in the heart vessels)
Cardiac aneurysms
Congenital heart diseases

Chest Wall Diseases:

Rib fractures
Chest wall tumors
Chest deformities (for example, pectus excavatum or pectus carinatum)

Chest Wall Traumas:

Chest cage injuries
Internal injuries caused by chest trauma

Mediastinal Diseases:

Mediastinal tumors
Mediastinitis (inflammation of the mediastinum)
Mediastinal cysts

Esophageal Diseases:

Esophageal cancer
Esophageal diverticulae
Esophageal strictures

Breast Diseases:

Breast cancer
Breast fibroadenomas
Breast inflammation

Thyroid and Parathyroid Diseases:

Thyroid cancer
Thyroid nodules
Parathyroid gland disorders

Metastatic Diseases of Different Organs Spreading to the Chest:

Liver metastases
Bone metastases
Metastatic tumors originating from other organs

Liv Hospital Thoracic Surgery

At Liv Hospital, cancer surgery interventions are performed with all kinds of techniques in our operating rooms equipped with state-of-the-art devices. At Liv Hospital Thoracic Surgery Clinic, surgical treatment options are offered for mediastinal tumors, non-cancerous problems of the lungs, chest wall anomalies, sweating problems (hand, armpit, face, etc.) and esophageal diseases.

In addition, there are also surgical intervention services for many chest diseases. We can list some of them as follows: