History; prerequisites for video-assisted thorascopic surgery; benign lesions of the pleura and lung (including nerval tumours); technical equipment; approach strategies and special instrumentation for thorascopic surgery; techniques of pulmonary resections in the treatment of pulmonary malignancies; anaesthesia for thoracoscopy; treatment of recurrent pneumothorax; oncological aspects and palliative treatments in malignant diseases; treatment of benign lesions of the oesophagus; mediatinoscopic resection of the oesophagus; anatomy of the thorax; sympathectomy, vagotomy; endoscopic surgery of the mediatinum; thorascopic oesophagectomy.
