bilobectomy

bilobectomy

English

Etymology

bi- +‎ lobectomy

Noun

bilobectomy (plural bilobectomies)

1. (surgery) Removal of two lobes of the right lung (middle plus right upper or lower)
   • 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:10.1186/s12957-015-0621-7:

     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 %).