Pneumonectomy
| Pneumonectomy | |
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Appearance of the cut surface of a pneumonectomy specimen containing
lung cancer, here a
squamous cell carcinoma (the whitish tumor near the bronchi).
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| ICD-9-CM | 32.5 |
| MeSH | D011013 |
A pneumonectomy (or pneumectomy) is a surgical procedure to remove a lung. Removal of just one lobe of the lung is specifically referred to as a lobectomy, and that of a segment of the lung as a wedge resection (or segmentectomy).
Indications
The most common reason for a pneumonectomy is to remove tumourous tissue arising from lung cancer. In the days prior to the use of antibiotics in tuberculosis treatment, tuberculosis was sometimes treated surgically by pneumonectomy.[citation needed]
The operation will reduce the respiratory capacity of the patient; before conducting a pneumonectomy, the surgeon will evaluate the ability of the patient to function after the lung tissue is removed. After the operation, patients are often given an incentive spirometer to help exercise their remaining lung and to improve breathing function. A rib or two is sometimes removed to allow the surgeon better access to the lung.
Types
There are two types of pneumonectomy:
- Simple pneumonectomy: removal of just the affected lung
- Extrapleural pneumonectomy (EPP): removal of the affected lung, plus part of the diaphragm, the parietal pleura (lining of the chest) and the pericardium (lining of the heart) on that side.[1] The linings are replaced by Gore-Tex in this radical and painful surgery that is used primarily for treatment of malignant mesothelioma.
History
Pioneering dates
- 1895: first pneumonectomy in multiple stages by William Macewen on a patient with tuberculosis and emphysema
- 1912: first anatomical dissection lobectomy by Hugh Morriston Davies[2]
- 1918: first successful lobectomy, by Harold Brunn[3]
- 1931: first successful pneumonectomy in two stages by Rudolph Nissen on a patient with crush injury to the thorax
- 1933: first successful single-stage total pneumonectomy by Graham and Singer[4]
- 1939: first segmentectomy, by Churchill and Belsey[5]
See also
References
External links
Media related to Pneumonectomy at Wikimedia Commons
- Fuentes PA (April 2003). "Pneumonectomy: historical perspective and prospective insight". Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 23 (4): 439–45. doi:10.1016/s1010-7940(03)00117-9. PMID 12694756.
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