pneumonectomy

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pneumonectomy

[‚nü·mə′nek·tə·mē]

(medicine)

Surgical removal of an entire lung.

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Adoption of pleurectomy and decortication for malignant mesothelioma leads to similar survival as extrapleural pneumonectomy. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2016;151:478.84.

The relationship between treatment cost and prognosis of malignant pleural mesothelioma in Turkey

These include, for extrapleural pneumonectomy specimens, such findings as emphysema, small airways disease, respiratory bronchiolitis, asbestosis, asbestos bodies, talc granulomas, and pleural plaques.

Dataset for Reporting of Malignant Mesothelioma of the Pleura or Peritoneum : Recommendations From the International Collaboration on Cancer Reportin (ICCR)

The surgical interventions include pleurodesis, parietal pleurectomy, and extrapleural pneumonectomy (EPP).

Mesothelioma review

Tumor Size.--For pleural mesotheliomas that are received as radical surgical (extrapleural pneumonectomy or pleurectomy/decortication) specimens, attempting to measure the dimensions of individual tumor nodules is neither simple (because the distinction between tumor and fibrotic reaction may be difficult to assess) nor informative.

Dataset for Reporting of Malignant Mesothelioma of the Pleura or Peritoneum: Recommendations From the International Collaboration on Cancer Reporting: (ICCR)