Thoracotomy and intercostal minimally invasive approaches can precipitate post-thoracotomy pain syndrome via intercostal ...

Cardiothoracic surgery is the subspecialty in surgery that focuses on the heart and the chest or thorax. In some jurisdictions the foci are separated into heart and thoracic surgery. The specialist ...

On a bright day in May 1953, American surgeon John Gibbon performed the first ever successful open-heart operation with a heart-lung machine, which he and his wife Mary had developed. This ...

A new study published in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery offers rare insight into what it's like to grow up as the child of a cardiothoracic (CT) surgeon mother, revealing a powerful blend of ...

If you want to learn about lung cancer surgery to remove lung tumors and nodules, this is a place to start. Surgery removes the part of the lung with cancer and nearby lymph nodes. A thoracic ...

Raja Flores, Chairman of the Department of Thoracic Surgery at Mount Sinai Health System, argues that recent research questioning the value of mesothelioma surgery is being misapplied to patients who ...

Each year, we match one general thoracic track and three cardiothoracic track fellows to our ACMGE thoracic surgery fellowship program. During the first year, fellows on the general thoracic and ...