Thoracic surgery Tunisia

The Thoracic surgery service of El Yosr Internationale clinic in Sousse, Tunisia offers its patients personalized, human, innovative and quality care.

Thoracic surgery is a surgical specialty applied to pathologies of the thorax. The specialist is called a thoracic surgeon.

The specialty of thoracic surgery concerns the rib cage and everything in the thorax except ... the heart, which is the subject of a separate specialty, cardiac surgery.

Thoracic surgery, applies to

• to the rib cage: ribs and sternum.
• to the envelopes of the lungs: the pleura.
• to the lungs and bronchi.

to anything located in the middle of the thorax, between the two lungs, in a space called "mediastinum", which includes besides the heart (field of cardiac surgery).

• the trachea which divides into two main bronchi.
• vessels: a very large artery that starts from the heart (the aorta), very large veins that reach the heart (upper and lower vena cava), arteries and pulmonary veins.
• lymph nodes.
• the esophagus moving down to the stomach.

Pathologies supported

Thoracic surgeons at Clinique El Yosr Internationale in Sousse, Tunisia take care of patients suffering from:

• Lung cancer.
• Lung metastases.
• Pathologies of the pleura (cancerous, simple and complex pneumothorax).
• Tumors of the mediastinum (including thymoma).
• Emphysema, respiratory failure.
• Pathology of the diaphragm (congenital hernia, post-traumatic rupture, paralysis).
• Traumatology.
• Wall deformation (pectus excavatum, carinatum…).
• Palmar hyperhidrosis.

The thoracic surgeon can intervene

• By opening the thorax: for example to remove a lobe of the lung (lobectomy).
• Or by introducing his instruments and a camera through small incisions: pleuroscopy, thoracoscopy, mediastinocopy.