If part of your thyroid needs to be removed in a lobectomy, the remaining gland will likely still be able to fulfill most of the functions of a full thyroid gland. Your thyroid is a small ...

If you have a lung problem, your doctor may suggest a lobectomy. It’s a surgery to remove a lobe (portion) of your lung. Your lungs are made up of five sections or lobes — three in your right and two ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Sublobar resection conferred similar survival outcomes as lobectomy among certain patients with non-small cell ...

1. Which doctor performs lobectomy? Lobectomy is treated by a pulmonologist, or a lung surgeon. 2. How does segmentectomy differ from lobectomy? Segmentectomy is the procedure where a division of the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “We believe that these results are quite powerful and informative,” Christopher Seder, MD, thoracic surgeon at ...

A large international study of patients with non-small cell lung cancer tumors that are two centimeters or less found that sub lobar surgery was non-inferior to lobectomy, according to results ...

Investigators were searching for answers to the question, “Does it matter if a vein- or artery-first approach is used when performing a robotic lobectomy for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)? This ...

Robotic-Assisted Lobectomy for Early-Stage Lung Cancer Provides Better Patient-Reported Quality of Life Compared to Video-Assisted Lobectomy (Vienna—August 9, 2022 10:10 a.m. CEST) –Robot-assisted ...

There is growing recognition that not all lobectomies for lung cancer are the same. The components of the lobectomy treatment process are numerous, making it difficult to study lobectomy as a single ...

An amazing new case study reports on an 11-year-old boy, code named UD (to protect his privacy), who underwent a procedure to remove a part of his brain that resulted in the rewiring of the rest of it ...

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had surgery just before Christmas to remove cancerous growths found in her lungs. She had a pulmonary lobectomy at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in ...