[Thoracic surgery 2009].
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.
Borro
José M
JM
Area de Cirugía SEPAR. jbormat@segas.es
Duque
José L
JL
Moreno
R
R
Gómez
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