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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Hadeel Maksoud M.D.[2]

Overview

The mainstay of treatment for occupational lung disease is medical therapy. Surgery is usually reserved for patients with progressive massive fibrosis or lung cancer.

Indications

  • Surgery is not the first-line treatment option for patients with occupational lung disease. Surgery is usually reserved for patients with either:[1]

Surgery

Pneumonectomy

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Conlan AA, Kopec SE (1999). "Indications for pneumonectomy. Pneumonectomy for benign disease". Chest Surg. Clin. N. Am. 9 (2): 311–26. PMID 10365265.