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Removal of a single lobe of the lung

Removal of a single lobe of the lung

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A 71-year old female asked:

what if my collasped lung dosent reinflate only one lobe collasped will the lung rot and cause trouble?

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A member asked:

What does suspicious densities is seen in the right upper lobe and left mid lung means? Is it seious or not? Pls answer.

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A 37-year old asked:

What are the causes and treatment for atelectasis of a lobe of lung?

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A 59-year old female asked:

2.5mm nodule grew to 8mm in upper right lung lobe in 3 years should I be worried?

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A 51-year old female asked:

I was diagnosed with non smal lung cancer last May. I had surgery to remove most of my left upper lobe. I am afraid the cancer is back?

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A 39-year old female asked:

Scared: Mild scarring no acute inflammation lower left lobe lung Primary says nothing from old infect No infect in 10+yrs Smoker25yrs+SOB+AcidReflux?

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A 50-year old female asked:

1 1/2 months ago I had lung biopsy on my left upper and lower lobes. A few weeks ago, I have been feeling pain under the left lower rib cage.

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A 45-year old female asked:

CPT surg coder. I am unable to tell if a surgeon did a lobectomy or a segmentectomy. What are the approx sizes using cm of each lobe of each lung?

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A 39-year old female asked:

What could cause mild scarring on left lower lobe at base of lung w/ no acute inflammation w/ no significant change in year? (on chest x-rays)

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A 39-year old female asked:

Does smoking directly cause lung scarring? Quit after 25 years mild scarring left low lobe no asthma or copd What is probability scarring will stop?

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A member asked:

What do you recommend if I had a cat scan with IV dye and doctors found a 2.8 mm subpleural upper lobe nodule on my lung- just wondering what does that mean?

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A member asked:

What do you recommend if I had a cat scan with IV dye and doctors found a 2.8 mm subpleural upper lobe nodule on my lung- just wondering what does that mean?

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A 36-year old asked:

What is the recovery period of a right lung lobe resection due to emphysema?

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A 45-year old female asked:

Friend had up lobe lung removed, cancer. Her WBC, MCHC, and MPV low. Could cancer be back?

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A 55-year old female asked:

Lung nodule 1.4 -2,7 SUV r middle lobe (VATS) now or wait 3months for another scan 3 thoracic surgeons said different things?

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A 62-year old female asked:

Lung nodules in 3 lobes of smoker. 9mm does not enhance ; no calcificat. Does this suggest small cell or large cell cancer? Needle biopsy scheduled.

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A 45-year old female asked:

A recent chest xray shows I have linear atelectasis in the lower lobes of each lung. Can I go on an upcoming trip that involves a number of flights?

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A 46-year old female asked:

I have Sarcoidosis last year had pneumonia Ct showed very mild left infiltrates in left lobe This year mild subpleural infiltrates in lung base. Help?

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A 39-year old asked:

Pleural bassed nodule at posterior aspect os mid cephalad right lower lobe of lung 7 X 4 mm. Also linear atelectasis within right midlung. age 73?

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A 42-year old female asked:

My husband had a CT scan of his chest 3 times, all the times it showed something but this time it showed an existing nodule in the right lung and a new nodule measuring 4 mm in the right upper lobe. The left lower has hazy markings. My husband is a former

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A 44-year old asked:

Any ideas why heart failures come from pulmonary embolism in the right upper lobe of the lung in arteriosclerosis?

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A 25-year old male asked:

Two lung nodules upper right lobe 5 and 2 one nodule lower left lobe 3 mm. All uncalcified. Colonoscopy endoscopy brain mri normal. What are theseim26?

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A 40-year old female asked:

2mm lung nodule lower left lobe - unrelated ct found it - on 1yr fu it's now 4mm. Any reason other than cancer it would grow? I just quit smoking.

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A member asked:

i had breast cancer a year ago and had a right mastecnomy. now they have found pleural nodules in right and left lower lobes 5mm, 4,8mm, 2,4mm, 4.5mm should i be worried about lung cancer.?

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A 60-year old female asked:

I take Atrovent, Symbicort (budesonide and formoterol) and Pro-Air daily since a lobectomy in 2005 to remove a lobe of my left lung d/t lung cancer. Can I donate platelets?

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A member asked:

Something in left upper lobe of lung like a small ANT moving. No pain. Mild Fever, legs paining. under 8 month of TB medication. Only RBC 5.8 abnormal

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A 57-year old female asked:

I am a lung cancer servivor of 15 years i have had bronchitus since mid July I have had a chest xray and a cat scan and my lungs are fine My cancer treatment was surgery to remove top lobe of left lung and 6 and a half weeks of radiiation?

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A 42-year old asked:

Else ever experienced lung removal?

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A member asked:

What is the definition or description of: Lung removal?

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A 30-year old asked:

I'll be undergoing a lung removal operation. What can I expect?

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