Taking in oxygen to power your whole body is just one part of your lung function. Altogether, your lungs are a highly ...

Her lungs sounded normal to her doctor, but she was sent to get an X-ray in May just in case. The scan showed a 6-centimeter by 6.9-centimeter tumor in the left upper lobe of her lung. It was not ...

The lungs have several lobes. The right lung has three lobes, and the left has two. Each lobe has several segments. To treat early stage NSCLC, surgeons may remove a segment of the lungs in a ...

Iraq veteran Kipp Petry knows his life was saved after "groundbreaking medical care" with a team of doctors and the Ion and ...

A pulmonary bleb is a small collection of air between the lung and the outer surface of the lung (visceral pleura) usually found in the upper lobe of the lung. When a bleb ruptures the air escapes ...

As a fellow, she said, she enrolled patients in the clinical trial that demonstrated that removing a section of a lung lobe was the equivalent of taking an entire lobe for tumors less than 2 ...

Combined airway valve therapy in severe emphysema improves lung function and walking distance for patients with heterogeneous disease, despite some risks.