Pneumonectomy
An operation to remove an entire lung or part of a lung.
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- Pneumonia
Inflammation of one or both lungs, with dense areas of lung inflammation. Pneumonia is frequently but not always due to infection. The infection may be bacterial, viral, fungal, or parasitic. Symptoms may include fever, chills, cough with sputum production, chest pain, and shortness of breath. Pneumonia is suggested by the symptoms and confirmed by chest […]
- Pneumonia, aspiration
Inflammation of the lungs due to the sucking in of food particles or fluids into the lungs (aspiration).
- Pneumonia, bilateral
Pneumonia in both lungs (right and left). Also known as double pneumonia.
- Pneumonia, giant cell
A deadly but fortunately rare complication of measles that tends to strike children who are immunodeficient from leukemia or AIDS. The lung tissue shows multinucleated giant cells lining the alveoli (air sacs) of the lungs. Also known as Hecht’s pneumonia.
- Pneumonia, Hecht's
Also known as giant cell pneumonia, this is a deadly but fortunately rare complication of measles. It tends to strike children who are immunodeficient as from leukemia or HIV/AIDS. The postmortem examination (autopsy) shows multinucleated giant cells lining the alveoli (air sacs) of the lungs. Named for the early 20th-century Austrian pathologist Victor Hecht.