The lungs are a pair of spongy organs in your chest. The right lung is bigger than the left lung. Each lung is divided into smaller parts called lobes. The right lung has three lobes, and the left ...

Lung cancer is one of the most common cancers for men and women and by far the deadliest — it kills more people than colon, breast and prostate cancers combined. Lung cancer rates overall have been ...

A 56-year-old man is referred to a pulmonologist for evaluation of a left lung upper lobe infiltrate. Approximately 10 months earlier, he was treated for pneumonia of the left lung. However, he ...

Occlusion of a major bronchus, either extrinsic (ie, due to enlarged lymph node, aberrant vessel ) or intrinsic (ie, due to mass, mucus, exudate) Congenital abnormality, such as congenital lobar ...

Dr. Mathew S. Lopes: A 65-year-old woman was transferred to this hospital because of chest pain. Six months before the current presentation, the patient presented to a hospital affiliated with this ...