If your lung tissue gets damaged, the lobe is removed so your lungs can expand ... They’ll make small quarter-inch to 2-inch long cuts on the side of your chest. Or you may just get one cut ...

A pulmonary bleb is a small collection of air between the lung and the outer surface of the lung (visceral pleura) usually found in the upper lobe of the lung ... J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 55:761–2, ...

“The No. 1, 2 and 3 cause of pneumonia is strep pneumonia ... it usually is confined to one lobe of one lung. Most bilateral pneumonia, he said, is caused by viruses, including influenza ...