Medicine:Segmental resection

Short description: Type of surgical procedure to remove an organ or gland

Segmental resection, or segmentectomy, is a surgical procedure to remove part of an organ or gland as a sub-type of resection, which might involve removing the whole body part. It may also be used to remove a tumor and the normal tissue around it. In lung cancer surgery, segmental resection refers to removing a section of a lobe of the lung. The resection margin needed to be free of cancerous cells.

References

•  This article incorporates public domain material from the U.S. National Cancer Institute document "Dictionary of Cancer Terms".

External links

• Segmental resection entry in the public domain NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms