This volume of the collection presents the anatomical region of the thorax. It gives a detailed description of thoracic surgical procedures, ranging from the most common ones, such as thoracotomy, to the most complex ones such as the placement of a transvalvular patch in cases of pulmonary valve stenosis.

It describes the most common surgical procedures, for instance, the thoracotomy or the placement of thoracic drainage; and also the most complex ones like the placement of a transvalvular patch, the extraction of oesophagic foreign bodies, tracheal collapse treatment or innovative techniques such as cardioplasty in idiopathic megaesophagus cases. The high quality of its images, some of them come with diagrams and illustrations, allow an accurate description of the pathologies and their etiology.