Thoracic Surgery Center
This is a special thoracic surgery center with a team composed of an anesthesiologist, chest diseases, oncology, and radiology as well as technical-medical facilities and equipment, where emergency and elective thoracic surgery is fully performed. Department of Thoracic Surgery includes a team specialized in surgery of lung cancer (diagnosis and treatment) and other lung diseases. This department has got a professor, 8 associate, 6 specialist and 18 assistant doctor. There are total 20 patient rooms in this department. 2 rooms with one bed, 6 rooms with two beds and 12 rooms with three beds. There are 4 operation rooms and there is an intensive care unit with seven beds.
Thoracoscopic Surgeries
VATS lobectomy, bilobectomy in Lung Cancer,
VATS wedge resections in Lung Cancer,
VATS thymectomy,
VATS mediastinal mass resections,
VATS pleural biopsy, decorticasyon, bullectomy,
VATS lymph node biopsy, lung biopsy
Thoracoscopic sympathectomy for hyperhidrosis (ETS)
Other Surgeries
Lung
Resections for lung cancer (sleeve resections, neoadjuvant resections)
Resection of Carcinoid Tumors
Resections for metastatic lung diseases
Bronchiectasis, tuberculosis, non-malign resections such as hydatic cysts
Lung resections to reduce volume
Bullectomy for pneumothorax, etc.
Mediastinum
Mediastinal mass and cyst resections
Diagnostic mediastinotomy
Trachea
Tracheal segment resections
Removal of foreign bodies
Endotracheal-endobronchial procedures
Pleura
Pleural biopsies
Mesothelioma surgery
Decortication
Chest Wall
Chest wall resections and reconstructions
Thoracic Outlet Syndrome surgery
Thoracoplasty
Stoma, abscess surgery
Diaphragm Surgery
Pericardium surgery
Resections of esophageal malign and benign tumors
Rigid Bronchoscopy
Differently from flexible bronchoscopy, it is performed under general anesthesia. It is mostly chosen for therapeutic bronchoscopy applications. However, it can also be used for diagnostic purposes in tumors at high risk of bleeding, patients that require removal of a foreign body, or in patient groups that may develop some critical shortness of breath.