Hussein Elkhayat, Hany Hasan Elsayed, Waleed Adel, Ahmed Gamal Elkhouly, Amr Abdellateef, Wagdy Abdel Moneim Amin, Alaa Ibrahim Abd El Hafiez, Hatem Beshir, Yasser Ahmed Elsayed, Moustafa Mohamed Elhamami, Ehab Abdel Moneim Wahby, Elhusseiny Elhusseiny Gamil, Ahmed Elminshawy
General thoracic surgery operations in Egypt are performed mainly by cardiothoracic surgeons and less oftenly by dedicated thoracic surgeons and general surgeons. This is mainly due to the relatively small number of thoracic surgeons in relation to population as only 210 cardiothoracic surgery specialists and 458 consultants are registered with the Egyptian Medical Syndicate (EMS) in a country with a population of more than 100 million people. Thoracic surgeons in Egypt are faced with a number of burdens, including the need to propagate the service to advanced technology infront of the obstacle of limited resources...
April 2022: Journal of Thoracic Disease