Research Catalog
Pleural diseases
- Title
- Pleural diseases / Richard W. Light, MD.
- Author
- Light, Richard W.
- Publication
- Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, [2013]
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- Description
- xiii, 504 pages : illustrations; 27 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Anatomy of the pleura -- Physiology of the pleural space-- Physiological effects of pneumothorax and pleural effusion-- Animal models in pleural investigation-- Cytokines and the pleura-- Radiographic examinations-- Clinical manifestations and useful tests-- Approach to the patient-- Transudative pleural effusions-- Pleural effusions related to metastatic malignancies-- Primary tumors of the pleura -- Parapneumonic effusions and empyema-- Tuberculous pleural effusions-- Pleural effusion secondary to fungal infections, actinomycosis, and nocardiosis -- Pleural effusion due to parasitic infection-- Pleural effusion due to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, other viruses, mycoplasma pneumoniae, and rickettsiae-- Pleural effusion due to pulmonary embolization -- Pleural effusion secondary to diseases of the gastrointestinal tract -- Pleural effusion secondary to diseases of the heart-- Pleural disease in obstetrics and gynecology -- Pleural disease due to collagen vascular diseases -- Pleural effusion due to drug reactions -- Pleural effusion due to miscellaneous diseases-- Pneumothorax-- Hemothorax-- Chylothorax and pseudochylothorax -- Other pleural diseases -- Thoracentesis (diagnostic and therapeutic) and pleural biopsy -- Chest tubes -- Thoracoscopy.
- ISBN
- 9781451175998 (alk. paper)
- 145117599X (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2012043314
- OCLC
- ocn814440867
- 814440867
- SCSB-14174622
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries