Thoracic Surgery: Current Practice and Future Directions: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Respiratory Medicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 December 2025 | Viewed by 33
Special Issue Editor
Interests: lung; lung cancer; lung diseases; thoracic diseases; malignant pleural effusion; mesothelioma; mediastinal diseases; thoracic surgery; bronchoscopy
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Dear Colleagues,
It is my pleasure to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue, entitled “Thoracic Surgery: Current Practice and Future Directions: 2nd Edition”. This is a new volume on the subject; we published 7 papers in the first edition of this Special Issue. For more details, please visit the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jcm/special_issues/T76E9W6998.
In the last few years, thoracic surgery has developed tremendously in terms of its use of new technologies, innovations in minimally invasive approaches, and integrated strategies for oncological treatments.
This Special Issue aims to collect new evidence on the safety, efficacy, and reproducibility of minimally invasive techniques, such as Uniportal-VATS and RATS, in lung, mediastinal, and esophageal diseases. It also aims to delve deeper into the results of new integrated oncological strategies, such as the role of immunotherapy in neoadjuvant therapy protocols.
This Special Issue will also look into innovative management in thoracic anesthesiology and loco-regional blocks for pain management during minimally invasive approaches.
Original research articles and reviews are welcome.
Their research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Current evidence on NSCLC’s pathogenesis, modern strategies for integrated treatments, and future perspectives;
- Novel endoscopic, diagnostic, and therapeutic techniques in thoracic surgery;
- Minimally invasive thoracic surgery (VATS and RATS);
- New anesthesiology and pain management strategies in thoracic surgery.
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Dania Nachira
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- NSCLC
- mediastinum
- thymoma
- esophageal disease
- immunotherapy
- new technologies
- minimally invasive surgery
- VATS
- RATS
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