Interventional pulmonary medicine
By: edited by John F. Beamis Jr., Praveen N. Mathur, Atul C. Mehta.
Contributors: Beamis, John F.; Mathur, Praveen N.; Mehta, Atul C.
Series: Lung biology in health and disease -- v. 189
Publisher: M. Dekker
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 689
Subjects: Lung Diseases -- therapy.; Bronchoscopy.; Thoracoscopy.; Lungs -- Diseases -- Diagnosis.; Lungs -- Diseases -- Treatment.; Bronchoscopy.; Thoracoscopy.; Lungs -- Endoscopic surgery.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. History of rigid bronchoscopy / Felix J.F. Herth, John F. Beamis, Jr., and Armin Ernst; title: 2. Rigid bronchoscopy: an interventional tool with a history and a future / Carla R. Lamb and John F. Beamis, Jr.; title: 3. Interventional flexible bronchoscopy: historical perspective / Teruomi Miyazawa ... [et al.]; title: 4. Therapeutic flexible bronchoscopy: overview / Pyng Lee and Atul C. Mehta; title: 5. Laser bronchoscopy for malignant disease / José Pablo Díaz-Jiménez and Alicia N. Rodriguez; title: 6. Laser bronchoscopy for benign disease / Henri Colt; title: 7. Cryotherapy: cold therapy for the tracheobronchial tree / James L. Knepler, Jr., and Praveen N. Mathur; title: 8. Endobronchial electrosurgery / Roberto F. Machado ... [et al.]; title: 9. Endobronchial brachytherapy / Dattatreyudu Nori ... [et al.]; title: 10. Argon plasma coagulator / Lutz Freitag and Günther Reichle; title: 11. Silicone airway stents / Macé M. Schuurmans and Chris T. Bolliger; title: 12. Self-expanding metallic airway stents / James N. Allen; title: 13. Foreign body removal / Kevin L. Kovitz and Martin L. Mayse; title: 14. Photodynamic therapy: early lung cancer / Stephen Lam and Annette M. McWilliams; title: 15. Photodynamic therapy for palliation of lung cancer / David Ost; title: 16. Bronchoscopic-mediated gene therapy: past, present, and future / Robert J. Kruklitis and Daniel H. Sterman; title: 17. Whole lung lavage / Benjamin D. Medoff and Selim M. Arcasoy; title: 18. Fluorescence bronchoscopy / Franz Stanzel and Karl Häussinger; title: 19. Transbronchial needle aspiration / E. James Britt; title: 20. Medical thoracoscopy: historical perspective / Robert Loddenkemper; title: 21. Medical thoracoscopy: diagnosis of pleural pulmonary disorders / Andrew G. Villanueva and John F. Beamis, Jr.; title: 22. Medical thoracoscopy: therapy for malignant conditions / Juliette L. Wohlrab and Charles A. Read; title: 23. Medical thoracoscopy: therapy for benign conditions / Michael H. Baumann; title: 24. Medical thoracoscopy: techniques for thoracic sympathectomy / Marc Noppen; title: 25. Transtracheal oxygen therapy / Kent L. Christopher; title: 26. Chest tube placement / Francis D. Sheski; title: 27. Percutaneous dilational tracheostomy / Bennett P. deBoisblanc; title: 28. Transthoracic needle aspiration and biopsy / Carla R. Lamb, David A. Bradshaw, and Dennis E. Amundson; title: 29. Effects of interventional procedures on quality of life and pulmonary function / Michael A. Jantz and Gerard A. Silvestri; title: 30. Training in interventional pulmonology / Michael J. Simoff and Paul A. Kvale; title: Appendix: procedural algorithms. 1. Palliative therapy for malignant central airway obstruction. 2. Medical thoracoscopy. 3. Malignant pleural effusion. 4. Large-bore chest tube insertion. 5. Bedside pleurodesis.