Video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy is a pulmonary lobectomy procedure ... commences by division of the main vessels and airways that supply the lobe that will be removed. The dissected lobe is ...

A pulmonary bleb is a small collection of air between the lung and the outer surface of the lung (visceral pleura) usually found in the upper lobe of the lung ... will typically have emphysema. Before ...

surgery for early-stage cancer removes all or part of the lung to extract the cancer. It can include: Segmentectomy is the removal of part of a lung lobe. Lobectomy involves removing an entire ...

Portillo’s surgeon removed her lower lobe of her left lung, the only location where they found cancer. Doctors diagnosed her as Stage 1 and the surgery removed it entirely. Portillo met with an ...