The Department of Thoracic Surgery is part of the "HELIOS Klinikum Emil von Behring" specialized hospital and, together with its partners at the Heckeshorn Lung Clinic, is one of Germany's most important centers for surgical and multimodal treatment of pulmonary diseases. As an integral part of the Heckeshorn Lung Clinic, the Department of Thoracic Surgery offers its patients a broad range of services using state-of-the-art technology, such as MRI, PET-CT, EBUS bronchoscopy etc. and thus provide sophisticated and timely diagnosis and treatment. The physicians and surgeons at the Heckeshorn Lung Clinic work on developing standards for the many subspecialties on the national and international level.
We use the latest procedures for the surgical treatment of our patients, such as minimally invasive surgery, lung-sparing surgery (including laser and bronchoplasty/angioplasty) and a multidisciplinary resection techniques for tumors with extensive spread. As part of interdisciplinary tumor conferences involving all supervising partners, each cancer patient is discussed and a personalized treatment strategy established.
Since 2008, the hospital has been certified by DOC-Cert and the German Society for Thoracic Surgery; since 2009 by OncoZert and the German Cancer Society as an integral part of the Lung Cancer Center of the Heckeshorn Lung Clinic.
Selected expert in the specialist field Thoracic Surgery
