title: [Thoracic surgery 2009].
abstract: Started with tuberculosis and developed in parallel with smoking and cancer and under the protection of anaesthesia, thoracic surgery appeared in the 1980's as a specialty with a difficult long-term survival. However, with the development of lung transplant, tracheal surgery, the appearance of video-assisted thoracic surgery, along with the confirmation that despite the excellent progress of chemoradiotherapy, surgery continues to be the best option for curing lung cancer, means that it is currently a specialty of great growth and a wider scope in the future.
authors.affiliation: Area de Cirugía SEPAR. jbormat@segas.es
authors.forename: José M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Borro
authors.forename: José L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Duque
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Moreno
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gómez
mesh_terms: D013903:Thoracic Surgery / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends