Thoracic Surgery

The Department of Thoracic Surgery of BenQ Hospital mainly treats thoracic diseases involving the lungs, esophagus and gastric cardia, mediastinum, and chest wall. Minimally invasive surgery is actively performed, using video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery to treat various intrathoracic diseases, including: totally thoracoscopic treatment of pulmonary nodules and benign and malignant tumors (lung cancer); totally thoracoscopic treatment of benign and malignant esophageal tumors (esophageal cancer) and achalasia of the cardia; totally thoracoscopic surgery for mediastinal tumors (thymomas, neurogenic tumors, teratomas, mediastinal cysts, etc.); totally thoracoscopic surgery for pulmonary bullae, spontaneous pneumothorax, emphysema, refractory pleural effusion, and acute and chronic empyema; totally thoracoscopic surgery for pectus excavatum, hyperhidrosis of the hands and feet, facial flushing, myasthenia gravis, pectus carinatum, and other conditions. The department has extensive experience in treating severe thoracic trauma, and all treatments have reached an advanced level domestically.

The department specializes in comprehensive treatment of lung cancer based on minimally invasive surgical resection and has extensive clinical experience in postoperative integrative Chinese and Western medicine treatment for lung cancer. Postoperative maintenance treatment for lung cancer is carried out through a combination of adjuvant chemotherapy, intravenous infusion of traditional Chinese medicines, immunotherapy, and targeted therapy. Radiofrequency ablation and other treatments for patients with advanced lung cancer who cannot undergo surgery and patients with metastatic lung cancer have achieved good therapeutic results.