GREECE
| Do cardiac surgeons perform lung resections? | Yes |
| Percentage of lung resections are performed by cardiac surgeons? | 20% |
| Certainty | Guess |
| Do general surgeons perform lung resections? | No |
| Percentage of lung resections are performed by general surgeons? | |
| Certainty | |
| Do thoracic surgeons perform oesophageal surgery? | Yes |
| What percentage of oesophageal surgery is done by thoracic surgeons? | 15% |
| Certainty | Guess |
| Percentage of thoracic surgeons who undertake oesophageal surgery | 80% |
| Accuracy | Guess |
| Comments on oesophageal surgery | Only FEW oesophageal cases are referred by Greek gastroenterologists to thoracic surgeons. Most oesophageal cases are referred to general surgeons, with the exception of cases for trans-thoracic re-operation post-laparoscopic fundoplication (failed) or cases of high oesophageal malignancies. |