They’ll spread your ribs apart to remove a lobe of your lung and take a biopsy — carefully breaking or dividing a rib, if needed. A small chest tube is left in to expand your lung once they ...

Other cases may require medical intervention involving a needle decompression treatment or chest tube insertion that allows ...

Three chest tubes are placed at the top, and a right-angled tube is placed along the diaphragm to control air leaks that are anticipated and should permit full refilling of the lung. Sugarbaker DJ, ...

allowing more room for the remaining healthy lung to expand. For the first day or so, a chest tube is left in to help adhere the once deflated lung to the chest wall (pleural symphysis). The tube will ...

In patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC), low-dose CT achieved higher sensitivity than chest x-ray for detecting lung metastases and second primary lung cancer, but patients ...

Placement of a chest tube may be necessary for management ... and adhesions that may form between the tube and the surface of the lung, obstructing the tube's openings. If the tube has been ...

making the space in the chest smaller, which pushes the air out again. When air goes down into the lungs, it passes through smaller and smaller tubes and ends up in tiny air sacs called alveoli.

A groundbreaking study has revealed a significant link between the frequency of chest x-ray referrals from GPs and earlier diagnosis and improved survival rates for lung cancer patients.