A segmentectomy is a surgical procedure that removes one of the ten anatomic segments of a lung. It requires some dissection of the artery, vein, and/or airway structures of that segment, and the ...

A new study by a team of 12 thoracic surgeons at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), published recently in the ...

Segmental resection (segmentectomy): Take out the part of the lung where the tumor is. Sleeve resection: Remove a lobe of the lung and a part of the airway. Lobectomy: Cut out an entire lobe of ...

Lobectomy - when one of the five lobes is removed; Segmentectomy - when a segment is removed; Wedge resection - when a small section of the lung is removed; Pneumonectomy - when an entire lung is ...

Your cancer specialist might consider other surgeries that remove more of the lung. These options include pneumonectomy (to ...

Surgical resectability included partial hepatectomy (70%), segmentectomy (10%), and liver transplantation (20%). Mixed histologic subtype was the most frequent (75%). The fetal component was ...

Wedge resection. This is when only part of a lobe is removed. Your doctor may refer to this surgery as a "segmentectomy." After you have a primary treatment for your lung cancer, such as surgery ...

The procedures include lung biopsies; atypical lung segmentectomy for tumours; metastatectomy for lung secondaries from other tumours (sarcoma/colon tumours); VATS lobectomy for lung cancer; lung ...

ARP Atlases. 2007;1:17-47. The total number of leukocytes recovered by lavage is determined by examination of a sample of the pooled fluid with a hemocytometer. The cell counts are most accurate ...