Tokyo Women's Medical University

Graduate School of Medical Science

Thoracic Surgery

About us

Our department offers medical treatment including mainly surgical interventions. Multidisciplinary therapy, such as operation with chemotherapy and/or radiation is perform for treating lung and a thymic cancers. Number of operations is from 250 to 300 cases a year (Lung cancer, 100-110 cases; Metastatic lung tumors, 50-60 cases; Mediastinal tumors, 30 cases; Cystic lung diseases, 50 cases). Almost all cases have been performed by thoracoscopic surgery. Complete video-assisted thoracoscopic segmentectomy or subsegmentectomy with referring to patients’ individual virtual 3-D pulmonary models is performed for both early stage lung cancer and metastatic lung tumors. For primary lung cancer cases such as mediastinal tumors and myasthenia gravis, robotic-assisted resections have started in 2012. Various procedures, such as bronchoscopic laser therapy, airway stent, and catheter intervention are performed for many thoracic diseases.

Research

1. Advance improvement of both simulation and navigation for the pulmonary resection
2. Study of thoracoscopic surgical treatment and the circulation of the blood in the lungs for the chronic pulmonary emphysema
3. Bronchial artery infusion for treating the lung cancer
4. Tissue-engineered epithelial cell sheets for creating a bioartificial trachea
5. Resipatory organs regeneration
6. Chest surgery with biomaterials

Faculty

Masato KANZAKI, Professor
Tamami ISAKA, Associate Professor
Takako MATSUMOTO, Associate Professor
Kunihiro OYAMA, Assistant Professor

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Research Achievements Database

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