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lobectomy
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lobectomy [lō′bek·tə·mē]
(medicine)
Surgical removal of a lobe of an organ, particularly of a lung.


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Tissue-sparing procedures, such as thyroid lobectomies and subtotal thyroidectomies, have decreased in number in our department and have been gradually replaced by total thyroidectomy.
Eight patients underwent en bloc resection of the tumor and surrounding structures (7 ipsilateral thyroid lobectomies and 1 subtotal thyroidectomy), and 5 underwent local excision alone.
[FIGURE B OMITTED] In normal postnatal lung samples, including those collected during lobectomies performed for CCAM, the epithelial cell proliferation index was low, ranging from 1% to 3% (mean, 1.
 
 
 
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