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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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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.
Patients with peripheral tumors with or without metastases to hilar nodes are usually treated with surgical lobectomy or pneumonectomy.
On day 3, right temporal lobectomy was performed.
Finally, 16 of these patients had surgery, undergoing a lobectomy, tumor removal, or corpus callosotomy to remove or control the seizure focus.
The other patient without symptomatic improvement after sclerosis had a history of a lobectomy and was found to have a chylous effusion.
The right middle lobe was emphysematous and a right middle lobectomy was performed.

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