Surgical treatment options
The Thoracic Surgery team at University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview, provides surgical treatment for diseases affecting organs inside the chest, excluding the heart. We have remarkable success using minimally invasive surgery and robot-assisted techniques to treat cancer of the lungs and esophagus.
In 2004, Dr. Michael Maddaus performed the first robotic lobectomy in Minnesota. Again in 2010, he performed the first robotic basal segmentectomy in the Midwest. The majority of our thoracic surgical procedures are performed thoracoscopically and laparascopically, offering patients less pain, a shorter hospital stay, and a faster return to normal daily activities.
We offer the following surgical treatment options:
- Airway interventions and stenting
- Basal segmentectomy
- Chemotherapy ports
- Endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS)
- Esophagectomy
- Gastric tubes (percutaneous) for nutrition
- Giant hiatal hernia repair
- Interventional bronchoscopy
- Interventional esophagoscopy
- Lobectomy
- Lung transplantation
- Minimally invasive surgery
- Myotomy for achalasia
- Nissen fundoplication
- Pulmonary and esophageal surgery
- Robotic surgery
- Thoracoscopic lobectomy
- Thoracoscopic lung resection
- Tracheostomy
