Rib cage conditions are treated by the Clinic's thoracic surgery department. The treatment of cancers is ensured by a multidisciplinary collaboration with the various specialists present on site.
Multidisciplinary management for chest pathologies
The Clinic's thoracic surgery department treats pathologies of the chest wall, lungs, mediastinum and esophagus. The most frequently treated cases are lung cancers.
Patients are cared for by a multidisciplinary team of surgeons, oncologists, radiation oncologists and anaesthetists specializing in thoracic surgery. Joint decision-making makes it possible to offer the best therapeutic solution to the patient. Most often, the operation involves removing part or all of a lobe or the entire lung.
Mediastinal tumors, teratomas, thymomas, neurogenic tumors, rarer, are also treated in thoracic surgery.
Benign or malignant diseases of the esophagus are also interested.
Frequent activity is represented by endocrine surgery (thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal).
