You wrote, "The right lung is made of three lobes, each with its own bronchus leading off the trachea. The left lung has only two lobes, also each with a bronchus." I thought the LEFT lung had 3 lobes and the RIGHT lung only 2 lobes. But hey, I'm no expert! :-)
A friend of mine (a life-long non-smoker) just had the bottom lobe of her left lung removed due to cancer. She said there were 3 lobes on the left. I guess she heard it wrong, and then I repeated the misinformation. My bad!!!
Yep, she heard wrong -- or she has a very unusual anatomy :) When I was in college, my mother had her right upper lobe removed, and I recall her saying at the time 'that's OK it leaves me with two on the right and two on the left', so that was a useless factoid that stuck in my head long before I became a doctor.
You wrote, "The right lung is made of three lobes, each with its own bronchus leading off the trachea. The left lung has only two lobes, also each with a bronchus." I thought the LEFT lung had 3 lobes and the RIGHT lung only 2 lobes. But hey, I'm no expert! :-)
Nope. Right has three and left has two (but I just checked again to be sure -- LOL!)
A friend of mine (a life-long non-smoker) just had the bottom lobe of her left lung removed due to cancer. She said there were 3 lobes on the left. I guess she heard it wrong, and then I repeated the misinformation. My bad!!!
Yep, she heard wrong -- or she has a very unusual anatomy :) When I was in college, my mother had her right upper lobe removed, and I recall her saying at the time 'that's OK it leaves me with two on the right and two on the left', so that was a useless factoid that stuck in my head long before I became a doctor.