pneumonectomy
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A pneumonectomy (or pneumectomy) is a surgical procedure to remove a lung. It was first successfully performed in 1933 by Dr. Evarts Graham. This is not to be confused with a lobectomy or segmentectomy, which only removes one part of the lung.
Key facts
- Interventions.Name
- Pneumonectomy
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- Lung cancer.jpg
- Interventions.Caption
- Appearance of the cut surface of a pneumonectomy specimen containing lung cancer, here a squamous cell carcinoma (the whitish tumor near the bronchi).
- Interventions.MeshID
- D011013
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
34,671 papers- Pneumonectomy.Chest surgery clinics of North America · 1995
- Completion pneumonectomy in cancer patients: experience with 55 cases.European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery : official journal of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery · 2004
- Pneumonectomy after contralateral lobectomy: is it reasonable?The Annals of thoracic surgery · 1995
- Minimally invasive pneumonectomy.The Annals of thoracic surgery · 2006
- Pneumonectomy for Lung Cancer Treatment in The Netherlands: Between-Hospital Variation and Outcomes.World journal of surgery · 2020
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Indications
- Contraindications
- Tests
- Pathologies
- Surgical approach
- Anatomical changes
- Living with one lung
- Complications
- History
- Pioneering dates
- See also
- References
- External links
A pneumonectomy (or pneumectomy) is a surgical procedure to remove a lung. It was first successfully performed in 1933 by Dr. Evarts Graham. This is not to be confused with a lobectomy or segmentectomy, which only removes one part of the lung.
There are two types of pneumonectomy: simple and extrapleural. A simple pneumonectomy removes just the lung. An extrapleural pneumonectomy also takes away part of the diaphragm, the parietal pleura, and the pericardium on that side.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “pneumonectomy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.