Skilled and professional doctors, nurses and junior medical staff work in the Thoracic Surgery Department.

The following diseases are diagnosed and treated in the Thoracic Surgery Department:

Diseases of the trachea:

• Tracheal stenoses of various origins
• Tracheal fistulas
• Tracheo-esophageal fistulas
• Foreign bodies of trachea and bronchi
• Tumors of the trachea
• Tracheal injuries
• Tracheomalacia

Purulent destructive diseases of the lungs:

• Acute and chronic abscesses
• Lung rot
• Staphylococcal destruction of the lungs
• Bronchoectatic disease
• Lung cysts
• Pleural empyema (acute and chronic)
• Fibrothorax
• Bronchial tubes (bronchopulmonary, bronchopleural, bronchoorgan)

Open and closed injuries of the chest:

• Traumatic pneumohemothorax
• Clotted hemothorax
• Rib fractures (displaced, windowed, linear)
• Fractures of the sternum
• Penetrating and non-penetrating injuries
• Injuries of lungs, heart, chest cavity and other organs
• Traumatic ligament tears with dislocation of abdominal organs
• Esophagus injuries

Tumor diseases:

• Lung cancer
• Benign tumors (papilloma, adenoma, lipoma, cylindroma, neurinoma, neurofibroma, teratoma, hamartoma, fibroma, leiomyoma, lymphangioma, etc.)
• Benign tumors of the chest wall (chondroma, fibroma, osteoma, schwannoma, etc.)
• Malignant tumors of the chest wall
• Benign and malignant tumors of the septum (thymoma, poststernal cyst, teratoma, lipoma, hemodectoma, neurofibroma, neurinoma, lymphoma, etc.)
• Benign and malignant growths of the pleura (mesothelioma, mesenchymoma, fibroma, chondroma, angioma, etc.)
• Metastatic lesions of lungs, pleura, septum

Other diseases։

• Pulmonary echinococcosis
• Bullous lung disease
• Spontaneous pneumothorax (primary, secondary, recurrent)
• Pleurisy
• Mediastinitis
• Lymphadenopathy
• Articular hernias
• Aspergillosis
• Arteriovenous malformation of the lung
• Congenital and acquired deformities of the chest wall
• Congenital lung defects
• Blood clotting

The following surgeries are performed in the Thoracic Surgery Department:

• Treatment of the trachea in connection with tracheal stenoses
• Wedge and circular tracheal dissection
• Placing a tracheostomy tube
• Surgical treatment of tracheo-esophageal trachea
• Removal of trachea and bronchial foreign bodies under local and general anesthesia
• Bronchoscopy
• Pleural cavity puncture
• Pleural cavity drainage (in pneumothorax, hydrothorax and other pleural lesions)
• Atypical lung resection by thoracotomy and thoracoscopic methods (in connection with lung bullous and bronchiectatic diseases)
• Pulmonary Echinococcosis (thoracotomy and thoracoscopic methods)
• Thoracotomy and thoracoscopic operations for purulent destructive diseases of the lungs and pleura
• In connection with benign and malignant neoplasms of the lungs and bronchi (segmentectomy, lobectomy, pneumonectomy) by thoracotomy and thoracoscopicmethods
• Bronchoplastic operations
• Pleural, lung and septum biopsies (thoracotomy and thoracoscopic)
• Parasternal biopsy
• Removal of septal tumors (thoracotomy and thoracoscopic methods)
• Surgical treatment of true and false intrathoracic hernia
• Surgical treatment of Zenkerian diverticulitis
• Surgical treatment of purulent mediastinitis
• Operations performed in connection with traumatic hemopneumothoraxes (thoracotomy and thoracoscopic methods)
• Fixation of sternum and ribs with metal construction (thoracotomy and thoracoscopic methods)
• Surgical treatment of post-traumatic hernias (thoracotomy and thoracoscopic methods)
• Surgical treatment of the relaxation of the dome of the stomach with the use of alloplastic mesh (thoracotomy and thoracoscopic methods)
• Partial and extensive resection of the pericardium (thoracotomy, thoracoscopic and sternotomy methods)
• Pericardial fenestration (thoracotomy and thoracoscopic)
• Removal of chest wall tumors
• Dissection of the chest wall
• Myoplastic surgeries of the chest wall
• Thoracostomy formation and closure
• Surgical treatment of limited and extensive infiltrative purulent diseases of the soft tissues of the chest wall
• Biopsy of cervical, iliac, superior and inferior lymph nodes
• Needle biopsy of the lung under MR control
• Sectoral resection of the breast and mastectomy