SAL Hospital’s Thoracic Surgery Centre is the only dedicated Thoracic Surgery Centre in Western India. Led by a team of specialists, this department is capable of conducting almost every known surgical procedure in this field with excellent results.
Thoracic (Chest) Surgery includes the surgery of:
- Lungs
- Pleura (Outer covering of Lung)
- Mediastinum (Space in the Chest Cage, not occupied by Heart and Lungs)
- Trachea (Wind Pipe)
- Birth defects of and Tumors of the Chest Wall
- Chest Injuries
- Diaphragm (Partition between Chest and Abdomen)
- Oesophagus (Food Pipe)
Treatments Offered
- Wedge Resection or Segmentectomy
- Lobectomy
- Pneumonectomy
- Sleeve Lobectomy
- Airway Surgeries
- VATS (Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery)
- Lung Cancer Surgery
- Lung Preservation Surgery
- Electrocautery
- Image-guided ablative therapies