(1) He was deemed fit for surgery and a left pneumonectomy was performed.(2) The first, pneumonectomy , is a full resection of the affected lung.(3) Lobectomy was performed in 34 cases and pneumonectomy in 10 cases.(4) He recovered well from his left pneumonectomy .(5) We routinely use a 4.8-mm stapling device to close the main bronchus after pneumonectomy .(6) Within 30 days after surgery, 91 patients died, 43 of whom patients had undergone pneumonectomy .(7) The method might also be applied to answer the question whether compensatory lung growth after pneumonectomy occurs by formation of new alveoli or by enlargement of existing alveoli.(8) A pneumonectomy was not performed in 1951 on King George IV.(9) The morbidity and mortality associated with donor pneumonectomy pose significant ethical considerations.(10) Whatever the case may be, it is clear that surgical treatment for operable lung cancer has come a far way since its formidable beginning of pneumonectomy in 1933.
