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Pulmonary Surgical Procedures

Medical Definition:	Surgery performed on the lung.
Guide Notes:	GEN or unspecified; prefer specifics; consider also LUNG /surg & LUNG DISEASES /surg or /surg with specific lung dis; DF: PULM SURG PROCEDURES

Pulmonary Surgical Procedures Categories.

	Collapse Therapy - Surgical treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis whereby the lung is totally or partially, temporarily or permanently, immobilized. The procedure was based on the popular concept that collapsing the affected portion of a tuberculous lung allowed the infected area to rest and thereby recover. At the beginning of the 20th century artificially induced pneumothorax (PNEUMOTHORAX, ARTIFICIAL) was popular. Later a variety of other techniques was used to encourage collapse of the infected portion of the lung: unilateral phrenic nerve division, PNEUMONOLYSIS, pneumoperitoneum (PNEUMOPERITONEUM, ARTIFICIAL), and THORACOPLASTY. Collapse therapy has declined since the advent of antitubercular chemotherapy. (Stedman, 25th ed; from Sabiston Jr, Textbook of Surgery, 14th ed, p1733-4)
	Lung Transplantation - The transference of either one or both of the lungs from one human or animal to another.
	Pneumonectomy - The excision of lung tissue including partial or total lung lobectomy.

Pulmonary Surgical Procedures Medical Definitions and Terms

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