A thyroid lobectomy is a surgical procedure that involves removing part of the thyroid. This procedure may help treat thyroid cancer, as well as other thyroid conditions. Individuals with thyroid ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “We believe that these results are quite powerful and informative,” Christopher Seder, MD, thoracic surgeon at ...

1. Which doctor performs lobectomy? Lobectomy is treated by a pulmonologist, or a lung surgeon. 2. How does segmentectomy differ from lobectomy? Segmentectomy is the procedure where a division of the ...

At 5 years, mortality did not differ between lobectomy and total thyroidectomy (relative risk [RR], 0.30; 95% CI, 0.07-1.35), and mortality outcomes remained similar between both approaches even after ...

A healthy 43-year-old woman was referred to the surgeon with an incidental nodule on the right side of her thyroid, which had been found when she underwent magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for mild ...

Lobectomy or Sublobectomy for Small Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer: The Question Remains The recent article in Journal of Clinical Oncology by Dai et al 1 explored the outcomes of lobectomy and of more ...