The Thoracic Surgery unit at Paideia International Hospital carries out both diagnostic and therapeutic activities for any disease requiring surgery of the thorax, lungs, pleura, thymus, mediastinum and oesophagus, whether tumour-induced, functional or traumatic, in both scheduled and emergency cases.
The thoracic surgery team has more than 10 years’ specific training in minimally invasive thoracic surgery. The majority of operations are performed using a single-port thoracoscopic technique (uniVATS) or a robotic technique (RATS).
Paideia International Hospital’s Thoracic Surgery unit
Paideia International Hospital has all the technology and high-precision machinery and highly-qualified staff needed to achieve therapeutic excellence even in surgery as delicate as thoracic surgery.
We have professionals in all areas of the diagnosis and treatment of thoracic cancers, and this allows all the clinical cases of thoracic oncology to be discussed in multidisciplinary teamsand then treated by the thoracic surgeon, oncologist, radiotherapist or other specialists needed in the treatment pathway.
VIDEOTHORACOSCOPY (VATS – Video Assisted Thoracic Surgery)
Procedures available:
- Uniportal lobectomy with radical mediastinal lymphadenectomy (uniVATS)
- Atypical lung resection (uniVATS)
- Thymectomy and treatment of myasthenia gravis (VATS)
- Plastic bronchovascular reconstruction surgery (bronchovascular sleeve)
- Pleural decortication
- Pneumothorax
- Pleural effusions
- Tracheobronchial tumours
- Lung tumours
- Tumours of the ribs and sternum
- Tumours of the mediastinum
- Pectus excavatum
- Endoscopic thoracic sympathectomy
- Disorders of the diaphragm (e.g. diaphragmatic relaxation)
ROBOTIC THORACIC SURGERY (RATS - Robotic Assisted Thoracic Surgery)
Procedures available:
- Lobectomy with radical mediastinal lymphadenectomy
- Thymectomy and treatment of myasthenia gravis
- Tracheobronchial tumours
- Tumours of the mediastinum
TRADITIONAL THORACIC SURGERY (Open Surgery)
- All locally advanced thoracic tumours infiltrating the chest wall
- Surgical Treatment of Pleural Mesothelioma (Pleurectomy and Decortication)
