General Thoracic Surgery Services at a Glance

• Airway surgery:
  • Tracheal resection
  • Bronchoplasty
  • Airway stents
  • T-tubes

• Benign esophageal disease:
  • Laparoscopic repair
  • Open (complicated)
  • Swallowing disorder (motility)

• Esophageal cancer:
  • Early detection
    • Barrett's esophagus
  • Staging
    • Positron emission tomography (PET)
    • Esophageal ultrasound
  • Resection
    • Transhiatal
    • Transthoracic
    • Minimally invasive

• Lung cancer:
  • Early detection
    • Clinical trials
    • Indeterminate Nodule Clinic
  • Staging
    • Imaging by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT), PET (eight full-time Mallinckrodt Institute chest radiologists)
    • Mediastinoscopy
    • Thoracoscopy
  • Resection
    • Limited resection
    • Segmentectomy
    • Sleeve resection
    • Resection for high-risk patients
    • Multifocal cancer
    • Thoracoscopic resection
     
• Lung transplantation

• Lung volume reduction surgery

• Myasthenia Gravis
  • Transcervical thymectomy

For a thoracic surgery consultation, call (888) 287-8741.

General Thoracic Surgeons

• Bryan F. Meyers, M.D., MPH, Chief of General Thoracic Surgery Section
• G. Alexander Patterson, M.D., Chief of Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery
• Traves D. Crabtree, M.D.
• Daniel Kreisel, M.D., Ph.D.
• Alexander S. Krupnick, M.D.