For cancer of the pleura pleural mesotheliomaa lung may be removed in an operation called a pneumonectomy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Island of the Holy Spirit] Reference

Adzick NS, Harrison MR, Hu LM, Davies P, Reid LM: Compensatory lung growth after pneumonectomy in fetal lambs: A morphometric study.    From Wordnik.com.  [Congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation publications] Reference

Hu LM, Davies P, Adzick NS, Harrison MR, Reid LM: The effects of intrauterine pneumonectomy in lambs: A morphometric study of the remaining lung at term.    From Wordnik.com.  [Congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation publications] Reference

A right pneumonectomy and removal of a portion of the left atrium was performed.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

Pulmonary artery stump thrombosis is a recognized complication after pneumonectomy.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

Click here for a webcast of Dr. Sugarbaker performing an extrapleural pneumonectomy.    From Wordnik.com.  [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference

Of those, 294 (14. 9%) underwent pneumonectomy and 168 (8. 5%) had the sleeve procedure.    From Wordnik.com.  [MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians] Reference

Five-year survival approached 60% with sleeve lobectomy compared with about 30% with pneumonectomy.    From Wordnik.com.  [MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians] Reference

Thus, she would have us say uterusectomy or wombectomy instead of hysterectomy and lungectomy instead of pneumonectomy.    From Wordnik.com.  [redding.com Stories] Reference

"We saw overall survival of 40 percent at five years for chemoradiation plus lobectomy, higher than seen with pneumonectomy.".    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

We report the case of a 68 year-old man who presented with chest pain nearly ten years after undergoing a right pneumonectomy for lung cancer.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

Tuffier is quoted as showing a patient, aged twenty-nine, upon whom, for beginning tuberculosis, he had performed pneumonectomy four years before.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

The article, which makes one smoker's pneumonectomy surgery sound nightmarishly medieval, is a pretty amazing read with five decades of hindsight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Workbench] Reference

A pneumonectomy treatment involves removing one entire lung, whereas a sleeve lobectomy removes only a section of the lung that contains the tumor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference

Tuffier 12.4 is quoted as showing a patient, aged twenty-nine, upon whom, for beginning tuberculosis, he had performed pneumonectomy four years before.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

When first introduced, sleeve lobectomy was offered as an alternative to patients unable to tolerate pneumonectomy because of compromised lung function.    From Wordnik.com.  [MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians] Reference

Lung cancer patients lived almost twice as long when treated with sleeve lobectomy than with pneumonectomy, according to a 10-year retrospective patient series.    From Wordnik.com.  [MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians] Reference

There's certainly a cohort of patients who walk around with one lung (pneumonectomy) and usually the other lung over-expands and the remaining area fills up with fluid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ask MetaFilter] Reference

This surgery aims to establish a negative margin, which means as much as an entire lung may be removed in order to ensure that the patient is cancer free, just like in a pneumonectomy.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

"Initially, the sleeve lobectomy was introduced for patients with lung cancer who were unable to tolerate a full pneumonectomy," stated the study's lead investigator, Yong Soo Choi, MD.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference

This newly released study investigated whether the sleeve lobectomy can be accepted as a favorable alternative procedure to pneumonectomy in patients with sufficient pulmonary function.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference

Initially, the sleeve lobectomy was considered by surgeons as an alternative procedure, because of the complex surgical technique and the possibility of not removing all of the tumor compared with the pneumonectomy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference

Overall, the study results show that a sleeve lobectomy can be performed with low operative risk and may offer superior survival and better postoperative pulmonary function compared with the pneumonectomy in selected patients.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference

(pneumonectomy), or chemoradiation plus surgical removal of only one lobe of the lung.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

For cancer of the pleura (pleural mesotheliomaa lung may be removed in an operation called a pneumonectomy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balkinization] Reference

(a) Photograph of left rat chest after left anterior thoracotomy, left pneumonectomy, and orthotopic transplantation of a regenerated left lung construct.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference

One patient died during sleeve lobectomy compared with eight with pneumonectomy (.    From Wordnik.com.  [MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians] Reference

Three-year overall survival was 71. 4% for patients who underwent sleeve lobectomy and 41. 8% for the pneumonectomy group (.    From Wordnik.com.  [MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians] Reference

"There was no significant difference in recurrence pattern between sleeve lobectomy group and pneumonectomy group in our study.    From Wordnik.com.  [MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians] Reference

These results are consistent with other studies that showed a similar local recurrence rate between sleeve lobectomy and pneumonectomy. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians] Reference

The only significant difference between the groups was tumor size, 5.20 cm in the pneumonectomy group versus 3.74 cm in the sleeve lobectomy group (.    From Wordnik.com.  [MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians] Reference

If anatomically feasible, a sleeve lobectomy is recommended as a favorable alternative to pneumonectomy in patients even with good pulmonary function. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference

This tells us that you don't have to put the patient through pneumonectomy; you might get superior outcomes with a smaller, safer operation, "says Aggarwal, who received an ASCO Foundation Merit Award for this research.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

1 but declined by 18. 5% in the pneumonectomy group.    From Wordnik.com.  [MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians] Reference

2) after left pneumonectomy and partial recovery after orthotopic transplantation of a regenerated left lung construct.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference

3). (b) Radiograph of rat chest after left pneumonectomy and orthotopic transplantation of a regenerated left lung construct.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference