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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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A left lower lobectomy was performed, and sectioning of the lung demonstrated a 1.3-cm firm, tan-pink mass which was representatively frozen.
Finally, 16 of these patients had surgery, undergoing a lobectomy, tumor removal, or corpus callosotomy to remove or control the seizure focus.
The patient was subsequently referred to our hospital, where he underwent thoracotomy with left upper lobectomy and partial pericardiectomy.
On day 3, right temporal lobectomy was performed.
Seven days after the bronchoscopy the patient went to the operating room for a right lower lobe lobectomy and wedge biopsy of the right middle lung.
Macroscopically, the largest mass in the lobectomy specimen was firm and white with cystic degeneration and stippling calcification.

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