cardiothoracic surgery
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Indications
- heart disease, lung disease, &/or mediastinal disease not amenable to medical treatment
Notes
- see surgery
More general terms
More specific terms
- ablation of pulmonary neoplasm
- bronchoplasty
- cardiac surgery (heart surgery)
- creation of pericardial window
- lung transplantation
- mediastinal surgery
- pleurectomy
- pleurodesis; chemical pleurodesis
- pneumonectomy
- pneumonostomy
- post-traumatic chest wall recontruction
- resection of external cardiac neoplasm
- resection of intracardiac neoplasm
- resection of mediastinal cyst
- resection of mediastinal neoplasm
- resection of pericardial cyst/neoplasm
- resection of rib
- resection of tracheal neoplasm
- resection of tracheal stenosis/anastomosis
- surgical cavopulmonary anastomosis; bidirectional Glenn & Fontan operations
- thoracoplasty
- thoracotomy
- thymectomy