The Department of Thoracic Surgery works as a unit that applies diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive methods of surgical diseases for the adult and child age groups of anatomical structures of the lungs and surrounding them exept the heart.
Thoracic surgery department works with a staff that can provide specialization training in chest surgery within the realities offered by science and technology in our hospital.
It serves chest surgery patients with equipped with knowledge, skills and experience, improving and keeping their current knowledge, participating in scientific research, adopting the patient and respecting patient rights and an understanding their needs.
Working area:
- Chest tube, catheter thoracostomy, pleurodesis
Open and closed lung membrane biopsies
- Incisional and excisional biopsies
- Fiberoptic bronchoscopy, Rigid bronchoscopy
- Mediastinoscopy
- Esophagoscopy
- Lung cancer surgeries
Infectious diseases of the lung
- Parasitic diseases of the lung
- Cystic diseases of the lung
- Benign and malignant diseases of the mediastinal space
- Pneumothorax, bullous lung and emphysema surgery
- benign and malignant diseases of the lung lining, such as pleural effusion, hemothorax, pensplititis, malignant mesothelioma
Diaphragmatic surgery
- Resection and reconstruction for the benign and malignant diseases of the chest wall, surgeries of the chest wall deformities
- Diseases caused by trachea and bronchial system
- Benign and malignant diseases of the esophagus
- Traumatic diseases of the lung, trachea and bronchial system and chest wall
- Metastatic diseases of the lung
Congenital diseases of the lung