Lobectomy
Surgical excision of a lobe / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not to be confused with Lobotomy.
Lobectomy means surgical excision of a lobe. This may refer to a lobe of the lung[1] (also simply called a lobectomy), a lobe of the thyroid (hemithyroidectomy), a lobe of the brain (as in anterior temporal lobectomy), or a lobe of the liver (hepatectomy).