A surgeon mistakenly removed the wrong part of a cancer patient’s lung when operating to remove a tumour, resulting in the ...

The dissected lobe is typical placed in a bag and removed ... of resection and cancer-specific outcomes are similar between VATS lobectomy and open lobectomy. Sugarbaker DJ, Bueno R, Krasna MJ, ...

A doctor breached three codes after a botched surgery resulted in a man being left with one lung, a new report says.

Even a temporary pause could be devastating for people like me, desperately waiting for new treatments that are under ...

In a report released today, the Health and Disability Commissioner has found a cardiothoracic surgeon breached the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) for providing ...

surgery for early-stage cancer removes all or part of the lung to extract the cancer. It can include: Segmentectomy is the removal of part of a lung lobe. Lobectomy involves removing an entire ...

Researchers assessed the impact of cryoablation during lobectomy for lung cancer on opioid use, hospital costs, and patient outcomes.

A pulmonary bleb is a small collection of air between the lung and the outer surface of the lung (visceral pleura) usually found in the upper lobe of the lung ... will typically have emphysema. Before ...

After a car accident in 2016, Yovanna Portillo, then 34, visited the emergency room as a precaution. Doctors diagnosed her with whiplash from the collision. But one of the scans she underwent ...