Thoracic surgery

The Thoracic Surgery department at Caen Normandy University Hospital treats patients with:

• Pulmonary pathologies : Surgery for lung cancers, surgery for lung metastases, diagnostic lung biopsies and surgery for lung infections.
• Pleural pathologies : Exploration and treatment of pleural effusions, diagnostic and therapeutic surgery of pleural tumors, management of pneumothorax.
• Mediastinal pathologies : Diagnosis and surgery of mediastinal tumors: thymomas, schwannomas, cysts, teratomas, lymphomas and hematological malignancies, etc.
• Parietal pathologies : Surgery of the chest wall, ribs and diaphragm.
• Sympathectomies for Hyperhidrosis and Eurotophobia
• Chest trauma : rib fractures, flail chest, sternum fracture, diaphragmatic ruptures, traumatic hemo-pneumothorax, penetrating wounds, ballistic trauma.

The department performs interventions via conventional approaches (thoracotomy, sternotomy) and also minimally invasive approaches (thoracoscopy and robot-assisted surgery) , for pulmonary, pleural or mediastinal pathologies.

The practitioners work closely with the region's pulmonology departments and participate in the Multidisciplinary Thoracic Oncology Tumor Boards of the Caen Normandy University Hospital and the François Baclesse Cancer Center . They also regularly participate in tumor boards ) on the management of thymic tumors ( RYTHM IC MTBs ) , as well as regional referral MTBs ( MTBs , MTBs ).

The two practitioners in the department perform nearly 500 procedures per year, including more than 200 major lung resections (segmentectomies, lobectomies, bilobectomies or pneumonectomies) .