Pleural disease
By: edited by Demosthenes Bouros.
Contributors: Bouros, Demosthenes.
Series: Lung biology in health and disease ;; v. 186
Publisher: Marcel Dekker, Inc.
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1044
Subjects: Pleura -- Diseases.; Pleural Diseases.; Pleura.; Thoracoscopy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The history of pleural disease; title: Anatomy of the pleura; title: Physiology of the pleura; title: Pathophysiology of the pleura; title: Respiratory function in pleural effusion; title: Imaging the pleura; title: The role of ultrasonography in the evaluation of pleural diseases; title: Pleural thoracentesis and biopsy; title: Chest tubes; title: Pleural lavage as a diagnostic and research tool; title: Medical thorascoscopy; title: Diagnostic video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery in pleural disease; title: Therapeutic use of thoracoscopy for pleural diseases; title: Discrimination between transudative and exudative pleural effusions: evaluating diagnostic tests in the pleural space; title: Differentiating between benign and malignant pleural effusions; title: Clinical evaluation of the patient with a pleural effusion; title: Transudate pleural effusions; title: Interventional radiology of pleural disease; title: Drug-induced pleural diseases; title: Parapneumonic pleural effusions and empyema; title: Postsurgical pleural infection; title: Surgical management of empyema; title: Malignant pleural effusions; title: Pleural effusion in lung carcinoma; title: Benign tumors of the pleura; title: Pleurodesis; title: Pleuroperitoneal shunts in malignant effusions; title: Mesothelioma: benign and malignant; title: Extrapleural pneumonectomy for early-stage diffuse malignant pleural mesothelioma; title: Benign asbestos-related pleural disease; title: Pleural manifestations of interstitial lung disease; title: Immunological diseases of the pleura; title: Pleural effusions in blood diseases; title: Pleural effusions in HIV; title: Pneumothorax; title: Tuberculous pleuritis; title: Pleural effusions in children; title: Pleural effusions in cardiac disease; title: Pleural effusions in pregnancy and gynecological diseases; title: Pleural disease in the intensive care unit; title: Pleural effusions in gastrointestinal tract diseases; title: Pleural effusions in pulmonary embolism; title: Pleural effusions secondary to fungal, nocardial, and actinomycotic infection; title: Pleural effusions in parasitic infections; title: Iatrogenis and rare pleural effusions; title: Management of the undiagnosed persistent pleural effusion; title: Hemothorax; title: Chylothorax and pseudochylothorax; title: The pleural space and organ transplantation; title: Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics in pleural fluid; title: Animal models in pleural investigation.