| The following day he underwent the four-hour operation known as a lobectomy. |
| Seven days after the bronchoscopy the patient went to the operating room for a right lower lobe lobectomy and wedge biopsy of the right middle lung. |
| The patient was subsequently referred to our hospital, where he underwent thoracotomy with left upper lobectomy and partial pericardiectomy. |
| Macroscopically, the largest mass in the lobectomy specimen was firm and white with cystic degeneration and stippling calcification. |
| The patient underwent right hepatic lobectomy with total resection of the lesions based on surgical exploration and intraoperative ultrasound examination. |
| The other patient without symptomatic improvement after sclerosis had a history of a lobectomy and was found to have a chylous effusion. |
