New Advances in Thoracic Surgery: Clinical Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prognosis—2nd Edition
A special issue of Diagnostics (ISSN 2075-4418). This special issue belongs to the section "Clinical Diagnosis and Prognosis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 64
Special Issue Editor
2. Thoracic Surgery Unit, Tor Vergata University Hospital, Rome, Italy
Interests: thoracic surgery; lung cancer; pleural diseases; mediastinal diseases
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Dear Colleagues,
The significant strides made in the last three decades in surgical techniques, medical devices, intraoperative anaesthesiological management, and postoperative patient care have affected thoracic surgery more than any other discipline. This has brought about improvements in and the implementation of thoracic surgical care in a growing number of patients who were previously excluded from surgery. The surgical outcome of most cancer diseases, even in elderly patients, has achieved astonishing results. The advent of video-assisted and robotic-assisted thoracic surgery has shortened hospital length of stay, ameliorated postoperative outcomes, and reduced the incidence of severe complications. The aim of this Special Issue is to provide readers with the most recent updates on the diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of thoracic surgical diseases.
Prof. Dr. Stefano Elia
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- thoracic surgery
- lung cancer
- pleural diseases
- mediastinal malignancies
- surgical outcome
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