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How long does pain last after a lobectomy?

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Dr. Douglas Arenberg answered

Specializes in Pulmonary Critical Care

Depends: If you had a thoracotomy, your pain could take 2 months of more to completely resolve. If you had a thoracoscopic procedire, it is typically much shorter, like 2 weeks or so. These are averages and by defnintion these numbers apply to no one indivisual, but represent the aggregate experience of many patients with the same problem. Yours could be better or worse.

Answered 4/19/2013

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