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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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Leslie Blumgart performed surgery on her husband consisting of a cholecystectomy, left hepatic lobectomy and caudate lobectomy.
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