WHAT OPERATIONS DO
WE PERFORM?
Procedures and Operations Performed by Thoracic Surgery
• Chest Drain / tube – for pneumothorax or pleural effusion
• Bronchoscopic biopsy
• Endobronchial ultrasound biopsy
• Mediastinoscopy
• Mediastinotomy
• Lung biopsy – nodule or diffuse disease
• Lung wedge resection, segmentectomy, lobectomy, pneumonectomy
• Chest wall resection and reconstruction for tumour
• Rib or sternal fracture internal fixation (plating)
• Repair of diaphragmatic hernia
• Plication for paralysed diaphragm
• Removal of mediastinal tumours
• Thymectomy
• Removal of retrosternal thyroid goitre
• Pleural biopsy
• Pleurodesis (talc, doxycycline, pleurectomy)
• Decortication for empyema
• Tracheal tumour biopsy
• Resection of giant emphysematous bullae
• Thoracoscopic sympathectomy for palmar hyperhidrosis
• Endo-bronchial valve therapy (EBV)
