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Pleural Disease
Contributor(s): Bouros, Demosthenes (Editor)
ISBN: 1420077384     ISBN-13: 9781420077384
Publisher: CRC Press
OUR PRICE:   $308.75  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: December 2009
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Annotation: With all chapters updated to include recent advances in clinical medicine and basic science, "Pleural Disease" presents recent advances in physiology, pathophysiology, and imaging and interventional medicine. Pulmonologists, radiologists, and critical care physicians will find this "Second Edition" a complete stand-alone reference for everything related to pleural diseases.

Written by an international team of experts, "Pleural Diseases" combines varying approaches to current diagnosis, treatments, and examines newer techniques on both benign and malignant complications.

New techniques discussed in the "Second Edition "include:

Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Medical | Pulmonary & Thoracic Medicine
- Medical | Radiology, Radiotherapy & Nuclear Medicine
- Medical | Critical Care
Dewey: 616.25
LCCN: 2009034900
Series: Lung Biology in Health and Disease
Physical Information: 2" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (2.80 lbs) 864 pages
 
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Publisher Description:

Updated to reflect the latest scientific advances and technologies in the diagnosis and treatment of pleural diseases, this new Second Edition explores the structure and function of these diseases and malignancies, from tuberculosis and asbestos to pleurisy and pneumothorax. Edited by leading international authorities in pulmonary medicine, this comprehensive guide is an invaluable resource for pulmonologists, radiologists, and critical care physicians.

Pleural Disease, Second Edition highlights:

  • molecular and diagnostic approaches
  • interventional applications, including pleural thoracentesis and closed biopsy, chest tube insertion, pleural lavage, medical thoracoscopy, and VATS
  • biomarkers and proteomics
  • translational medicine approaches, new treatment methodologies, and clinical manifestations
  • various diagnostic tests and the importance of clinical evaluation in the differential diagnosis of a pleural effusion
  • new surgical and non-surgical techniques to identify and diagnose pleural diseases, including: medical thoracoscopy, pleural lavage, intrapleural fibrinolytics, image-guided
  • small bore catheters, video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS), pleuroperitoneal shunt, and extrapleural pneumonectomy