Aesculapius contemplates thoracic surgery

Fifty years with Aesculapius.

stuffy and irritating smell that greeted a small group of 56 students who met in the anatomy lab classroom to start their medical training — the future class of ’61. Some were nervous about this new venture, some guarded, and others were eager with anticipation. A couple of us who appeared with full beards from a summer’s work in the north of Canada were told to be clean shaven before returning...

Anterior Cervical Incision and Thoracotomy for Cervico-thoracic, Thoracic, and Thoracolumbar Spine Surgery: A Clinical Series

Introduction:Surgical treatment of diseases in cervicothoracic, thoracic and thoracolumbar regions can be a challenging issue. Cooperation of the thoracic surgeons and spine surgeons can improve the outcomes and decrease the complications of patients who underwent these approaches.Materials & Methods: The participants of this study consisted of seventeenpatients suffering from different types o...

Thoracic Surgery

Thoracic Surgery

Video-assisted thoracic surgery for fibropurulent thoracic empyema: a bridge to open thoracic surgery.

BACKGROUND Thoracic empyema remains a serious problem. OBJECTIVE We evaluated the feasibility and efficacy of video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) for fibropurulent thoracic empyema. PATIENTS AND METHODS Twenty-six consecutive patients with thoracic empyema resistant to medical therapy were treated by VATS from 1997 to 2006. The presence of pleural adhesion was not a contraindication. Pat...