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 ...
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 ...
W. Awori Hayanga, MD, MPH, professor of thoracic surgery, Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, West Virginia ...
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 ...