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UK
/njˌuːmənˈɛktəmˌi/
]
NOUN
- surgical removal of a lung (usually to treat lung cancer)
How To Use pneumonectomy In A Sentence
- Adzick NS, Harrison MR, Hu LM, Davies P, Reid LM: Compensatory lung growth after pneumonectomy in fetal lambs: A morphometric study. Congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation publications
- Methods 70 cases of total pneumonectomy with preandand lung function.
- For cancer of the pleura pleural mesotheliomaa lung may be removed in an operation called a pneumonectomy. Patrick Dougherty and the Trees of Civic Center
- Whatever the case may be, it is clear that surgical treatment for operable lung cancer has come a far way since its formidable beginning of pneumonectomy in 1933.
- The first, pneumonectomy, is a full resection of the affected lung.
- We routinely use a 4.8-mm stapling device to close the main bronchus after pneumonectomy.
- METHODS: We reviewed 50 consecutive patients undergoing extrapleural pneumonectomy for malignant pleural mesothelioma in our institution between January 1993 and March 2005.
- The subjects were consecutive patients who required pneumonectomy or lobectomy for small peripheral lung nodules; they were not selected to represent an obstructed and nonobstructed group.
- Patients with peripheral tumors with or without metastases to hilar nodes are usually treated with surgical lobectomy or pneumonectomy.
- In left - sided pneumonectomy patients, R volumes were normal whereas L ejection fraction was abnormally low.