Thoracic surgery in Estonia.

ABSTRACT: Estonia, a small Northern European country with the population of 1.3 million, has two centres of thoracic surgery, both established in 1960s. One is in the capital Tallinn, and another in the university town Tartu. Both departments cover the full spectrum of thoracic surgery, apart from oesophageal cancer surgery, yet including paediatric operations and chest trauma management. However, the focus is on lung cancer surgery. Currently, the proportion of lung cancer cases treated surgically is 20% in Estonia. Between 2000 and 2015 the proportion of lobectomies increased from 53% to 76%, while pneumonectomies decreased from 28% to 8%. Although the absolute number of lung cancer operations in Estonia is small, upon need complex and extended resections are performed. In the last decades a consi

SUBMITTER: Laisaar T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9186225 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature