thoracic surgery
Sign in to saveAlso known as cardiothoracic surgery, thoracosurgery
medical specialty involved in surgical treatment of organs inside the thorax
Key facts
- Names
- Doctor Surgeon
- Occupation type
- Specialty
- Activity sectors
- Medicine , Surgery
- Education required
- Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) Doctor of Osteopathic medicine (D.O.) Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (M.B.B.S.) Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB)
- Fields of employment
- Hospitals , Clinics
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
616,703 papers- Gender representation in cardio-thoracic surgery.European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery : official journal of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery · 2024
- Starting and Developing a Robotic Thoracic Surgery Program.Thoracic surgery clinics · 2023
- Thoracic Surgery: Where's the Controversy?Thoracic surgery clinics · 2023
- Social Disparities in Thoracic Surgery: Actionable Items.Thoracic surgery clinics · 2022
- Thoracic surgery milestones 2.0: Rationale and revision.The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery · 2020
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Coronary artery bypass surgery Image 657B-PH.jpg
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- Commons category
- Thoracic surgery
- OpenStreetMap tag
- healthcare:speciality=thoracic_surgery
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Article
Cardiothoracic (CT) surgery is the field of medicine involved in surgical treatment of organs inside the thoracic cavity — generally treatment of conditions of the heart (heart disease), lungs (lung disease), and other pleural or mediastinal structures.
In most countries, cardiothoracic surgery is further subspecialized into cardiac surgery (involving the heart and the great vessels) and thoracic surgery (involving the lungs, esophagus, thymus, etc.); the exceptions are the United States, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, India and some European Union countries such as Portugal.