3D-printed thorax for training purposes Mechanical engineers and surgeons from the University of Magdeburg jointly develop a training model for operations in the thoracic cavity Business ...

Hemothorax is bleeding and blood accumulating around your lung. This usually happens after an injury to the chest area. Some underlying health conditions can lead to bleeding in the chest cavity ...

In March 2025, surgeons at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center in Houston, Texas, performed the first fully robotic heart ...

If a chest tube is present preoperatively, we prep this into the operative field and remove it once access to the pleural cavity is established.

Thoracic endometriosis is a rare complication of this common gynecologic disease. Individuals with thoracic endometriosis have endometrial patches or lesions in various parts of the chest cavity ...

A team of doctors from the Lokmanya Tilak Hospital on Wednesday surgically removed the three-kg tumour from his chest. When Rabat reached the Sion hospital, an endotracheal tube was inserted in ...

A middle-aged man whose heart had expanded to fill his entire chest cavity has been diagnosed with an extremely rare condition known as Wall to Wall Heart. In a case report published in the ...

Engineers and physicians at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg have jointly developed an educational and training model for operations in the human thoracic cavity. In future, the model, which has ...