A lobectomy involves removing a lobe of the lung. There are five lobes in the lungs, three on the right and two on the left, Flores explained. Ginsburg had her lower left lobe removed.

An x-ray revealed a radiodensity above the left lower lobe, and a CT scan confirmed migration into a subsegmental artery. As the patient was asymptomatic, she declined surgery.

A 47-year-old woman with malignant melanoma was found to have bilateral pulmonary nodules, hilar and mediastinal lymphadenopathy, and left upper lobe infiltrate. Polling and commenting are now closed.

Many poorly defined nodules lay within his right lung, mostly in the upper lobe. Follow-up 4-mm unenhanced coronal CT maximum-intensity projection images confirmed the presence of centrilobular ...

Figure 9: An axial-fused PET/CT image demonstrates an FDG–avid right lower lobe lung nodule, with a maximum standard uptake value of 8. It generally occurs in women aged older than 40 years ...

Two nodules in the lower lobe of her left lung were discovered incidentally during tests performed at George Washington University Hospital to diagnose and treat rib fractures sustained in a fall ...

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had surgery Friday morning for two malignant nodules in her left lung, the 85-year-old justice’s third bout with cancer. The pulmonary lobectomy was performed at ...

Finally, a chest radiograph revealed pulmonary nodules and a CT scan of the chest revealed a large thyroid mass in the left lobe and multiple pulmonary nodules <1 cm in diameter.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg underwent a pulmonary lobectomy today at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. Two nodules in the lower lobe of her left lung were discovered ...

In January, 1961, she became critically ill with a pyopneumothorax on the left (Fig. 2). Thoracotomy revealed that a large necrotic nodule in the left upper lobe had ruptured into the pleural space.