Generally, the doctor can look inside the lungs using a bronchoscope (a thin, lighted tube with a camera on its end) and place the coils. The doctor typically inserts 10–14 coils in the lung lobe.

Just ten days before, I’d undergone a robotic-assisted surgery to remove my right lower lung lobe to remove adenocarcinoma, a type of lung cancer. Our lungs are composed of a total of five lobes ...

WTOP’s Neal Augenstein had robot-assisted surgery Friday as part of his treatment for stage 4 lung cancer. Now he’s back to work, feeling great, and amazed by recent developments in treatment.

But after talking to his family and doctors, Howard decided to go ahead and have the affected lobe and surrounding tissue surgically removed — called a lobectomy — which gave him the best odds ...

residual volume/total lung capacity ratio (median, –15.9%; IQR, –22.1% to –9.2%). Notably, eight of the 14 patients had left lower lobe disease, but this did not impact lung function ...