pneumonectomy
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Today’s pneumonectomy survivors are typically in poor health for this reason, and they face significant risk from respiratory illnesses that would pose little danger to someone with two healthy lungs.
From Slate ● Mar. 14, 2013
So left pneumonectomy patients have somewhat more remaining capacity than those who lose the right lung.
From Slate ● Mar. 14, 2013
Tuffier is quoted as showing a patient, aged twenty-nine, upon whom, for beginning tuberculosis, he had performed pneumonectomy four years before.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
Antibiotics and public health programs have virtually eliminated pneumonia-triggered lung removal, and lung cancer now causes the overwhelming majority of pneumonectomies.
From Slate ● Mar. 14, 2013
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