Lung cancer commonly requires a lobectomy to remove parts of your lung called lobes. (Photo Credit: iStock/Getty Images) If your surgeon removes two lobes of your lung, it's called a bilobectomy.

This cancer hasn’t reached distant parts of the body (MO ... There are at least two separate nodules in the same lobe of a lung. In this case, the cancer has reached the lymph nodes near ...

Medically reviewed by Sanja Jelic, MD Panlobular emphysema (PLE) is a type of emphysema that affects the whole acinus—the ...

It can spread quickly to the lymph nodes and other parts of the body. Surgery is reserved only for patients with limited disease. Anatomy of the respiratory system, showing the trachea and both lungs ...

A cancer patient says he's still seeking answers around how a surgeon mistakenly removed the wrong part of his lung nearly five years on ... the first reported case he had seen where the wrong lobe ...