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Types of operative procedures
| Standard: | |
| Lobectomy | |
| Bilobectomy | |
| Pneumonectomy | |
| Lung-parenchyma-sparing operations: | |
| Proximal | Bronchotomy |
| Rotating bronchoplasty | |
| Bronchial or tracheal wedge excision | |
| Bronchial or tracheal sleeve resection | |
| Distal | Anatomical segmentectomy |
| (wide) Wedge excision | |
| Extended procedures (lung + other structure): | |
| Pericardium (intrapericardial pneumonectomy) | |
| Diaphragm | |
| Chest wall (ribs, vertebrae) | |
| Superior sulcus (Pancoast tumour) | |
