Thoracic Surgery Between Tradition and Innovations
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "General Surgery".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 32
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The recent progress in thoracic oncology and medical applied technology has given many opportunities to develop new strategies in surgical oncology for lung cancer, pleural tumors and chest wall neoplasms. Besides, the new achievements in immunotherapy and targeted therapy have led to important changes in the multimodal treatments. Regarding the early diagnosis, screening programs for lung cancer proved to have a role. All these tangible and epocal changes have pushed the evolution of thoracic surgery into the modern era. Minimally invasive sugery is now the leading approach and sublobar resections for lung primaries have an increased indication since the screening programs usually give the surgeons early-stage tumors. However some traditional solid principles still remain pivotal for the final clinical success. In this issue, the importance of innovations and the solidity of basic values concerning the surgical planning and attention to technical details pretend to be stressed in order to address a balanced perpective for the future advancement of thoracic surgery.
Dr. Jacopo Vannucci
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- thoracic surgery
- lung cancer
- pulmonary resections
- pleural disease
- perioperative medicine
- mesothelioma
- lung transplantation
- chest wall resection and reconstruction
- esophageal cancer
- thoracic trauma
- emergency
- pulmonary metastasectomy
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