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bilobectomy en · NOUN

Etymology

From bi- + lobectomy.

Meanings

1. Removal of two lobes of the right lung (middle plus right upper or lower)
   • The majority of surgeries were performed using wedge resection ( n = 439, 71.4 %), followed by lobectomy ( n = 109, 17.7 %), segmentectomy ( n = 41, 6.7 %), precision excision ( n = 20, 3.3 %), bilobectomy ( n = 5, 0.8 %), and pneumonectomy ( n = 1, 0.2 %). 2015 July 25, Jong Ho Cho et al., “The prognostic importance of the number of metastases in pulmonary metastasectomy of colorectal cancer”, in World Journal of Surgical Oncology, volume 13, →DOI:

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