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What is a lobectomy?

What is a lobectomy? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (surgery) The surgical removal of a lobe from an organ such as the lung or the brain
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On day 3, right temporal lobectomy was performed.
Patients with peripheral tumors with or without metastases to hilar nodes are usually treated with surgical lobectomy or pneumonectomy.
The right middle lobe was emphysematous and a right middle lobectomy was performed.
The patient was subsequently referred to our hospital, where he underwent thoracotomy with left upper lobectomy and partial pericardiectomy.
A left lower lobectomy with arterial ligation was performed.
The patient underwent right hepatic lobectomy with total resection of the lesions based on surgical exploration and intraoperative ultrasound examination.

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