lobectomy

Examples

• All

• Laparoscopic hepatic resection has been carried out with favorable results, especially the left lobectomy and multiple segment resections.

  Academic text (2007)

• No prospective, randomized study has compared survival after total thyroidectomy, subtotal thyroidectomy, and thyroid lobectomy.

  Academic text (2002)

• A neck exploration and partial right thyroid lobectomy were performed.

  Academic text (2006)

• Thyroid lobectomy and isthmusectomy were performed.

  Academic text (2005)

• On the other hand, we found that lobectomy might carry a higher risk of recurrence (from a micrometastasis in the cervical lymph node) than does total thyroidectomy.

  Academic text (2002)

• We found that among patients who had undergone either thyroid lobectomy or total thyroidectomy, mortality rates were 1.3% for those younger than 45 years of age and 15.6% for those 45 years and older (p<0.0001).

  Academic text (2002)

• We set out to determine whether women younger than 45 years who have papillary thyroid cancer smaller than 4 cm (T2N0M0) can be treated with thyroid lobectomy and experience low mortality and morbidity rates.

  Academic text (2002)

• By cross-referencing pathology records, we learned that 89 of these patients had undergone subsequent surgical excision (thyroid lobectomy) and pathologic examination.

  Academic text (2005)

• The surgeon explained that a lobectomy would be necessary to remove the damaged lobe of the lung.

• After undergoing a lobectomy, the patient began a rigorous rehabilitation program to regain lung function.

How Extensive

pneumonectomy

• Specialized

1 8.7

lobectomy

• Specialized

2 8.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology